The unique personality which is the real life in me, I cannot gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others.

But even our pleasures are calculated and business like. We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended. Our salons are often little better than bazaars of fashion.

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

Religion is a wizard, a sibyl . . . She faces the wreck of worlds, and prophesies restoration. She faces a sky blood-red with sunset colours that deepen into darkness, and prophesies dawn. She faces death, and prophesies life.

It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy by obliterating every trace of the fear of death from our minds. Then can we turn to life and fill the whole horizon of our souls with it, turn with added zest to all the serious tasks which it imposes and to the pure delights which here and there it affords.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.