When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.

It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.

To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.