As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food.

It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things.

Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.

To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.