The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Breed is stronger than pasture.

Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.