The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet.

I shall do everything it becomes me to do.

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.

One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.