College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.

A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.

Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid--necessarily goes to the roots of action! Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.