Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.

It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.

So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.

We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.