Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.

I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Antaeus.

When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.

To the innocent there are neither cherubim nor angels.