Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that his justice cannot sleep forever.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.