and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

Nothing at times is more expressive than silence.

If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

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

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

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.