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

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest of the world. And my sense of desolation increases. Each day seems a new beginning -- a new acquaintance with grief.

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given us to guide our own steps; as the foot-soldier who hears nothing of the councils that determine the course of the great battle he is in, hears plainly enough the word of command that they must themselves obey.

I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.