“Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.”
“And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular - but one must take it because it is right.”
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
“...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.”
“The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.”
“There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.”