I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

Do not measure God's mind by your own.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

Will is not unfrequently weakness.

For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand he takes his father by the beard, and turns that father's face up to his brothers and sisters to kiss? when even the lovely selfishness of love-seeking has vanished, and the heart is absorbed in loving?

Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.