In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us.