bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

Time, like money, is measured by our needs.

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.