They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one.

AND what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten.

Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.