To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.