We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!

But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.

These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.

Sleep has no place it can call its own.

Truly there is no such thing as finality.

We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!