What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.

When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.