Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.

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

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.