Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

Men propound mathematical theorems in besieged cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on the scaffold, discuss a new poem while advancing to the walls of Quebec, and comb their hair at Thermopylae. This is not panache; it is our nature.

You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.