Particular lies may speak a general truth.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.

I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.

One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.