There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.

Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.