For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.

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

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric.

I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.