The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.

The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.

May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one aspiration yet unfelt; one bit of courage for the darkening sky; one gleam of faith to brave the thickening ills of life; one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists - to make this life worthwhile.