God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.
The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.
in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.
Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.