“Treat God like a dangerous loony - keep him calm and stay on his good side.”

“Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods—they worship us and keep bothering us to do something for them.”

“Keep calm and carry on. Also, stay in and hide because the Ripper is coming.”

“Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.”

“How infinitely good that Providence is which has provided, in its government of mankind, such narrow bounds to his sight and knowledge of things; and though he walks in the midst of so many thousand dangers, the sight of which, if discovered to him, would distract his mind and sink his spirits, he is kept serene and calm by having the events of things hid from his eyes, and knowing nothing of the dangers which surround him!”

“But this show, this shower of fire and ice and blood, reminded him yet again that God is faithful. He keeps his promises. While our ways are not his ways and we can never understand him this side of heaven, Rayford was assured again that he was on the side of the army that had already won this war.”