Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty

We live merely on the crust or rind of things.

That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.