What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?