Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.

There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.