Every beginning is cheerful.
Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.
Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.
A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.
The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.
Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.