Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One, Who sees the end from the beginning: He shall unravel all.
The only thing a man knows is himself.
The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.
The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.
Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.