Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.

I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.