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.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.

Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.

I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me