If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

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.

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.

Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

Where Jack isn't safe, Tom's in danger.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.