Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

Love, like the opening of the heavens to the Saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest man, the possibilities of the human race. He has faith, hope, and charity for another being, perhaps but a creation of his imagination: still it is a great advance for a man to be profoundly loving even in his imaginations.