Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation-robes glittering with fire; and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gate of heaven.

I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.

Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over; but he saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.