One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that very "most advantageous advantage" which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms... [an]will attain his object-that is, convince himself he is a man and not a piano-key!

After all, bluff and real emotion exist so easily side by side.

If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated.

I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus.

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.

Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!