It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self.

Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.

In high vengeance there is noble scorn.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.