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.

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.

Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.