We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.

If it is the result of a pure love, there can be nothing sensual in marriage. Chastity is something positive, not negative. It isthe virtue of the married especially. All lusts or base pleasures must give place to loftier delights. They who meet as superior beings cannot perform the deeds of inferior ones.

The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.

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

How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint.

All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.