There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood.

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.