An ordinary man will work every day for a year at shoveling dirt to support his body, or a family of bodies; but he is an extraordinary man who will work a whole day in a year for the support of his soul. Even the priests, men of God, so called, for the most part confess that they work for the support of the body.

As all curves have reference to their centres or foci, so all beauty of character has reference to the soul, and is a graceful gesture of recognition or waving of the body toward it.

We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.

Morning brings back the heroic ages.

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.

Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory.