Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.

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.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

May is a pious fraud of the almanac.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.