By seeking and blundering we learn.

Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant passages.

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

Miracle is the pet child of faith.

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance.

The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.