Human experience is usually paradoxical.
It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
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.
We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.