It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?

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

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

There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.