a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.

Anger as well as love casts out fear.

the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!

moral vanity is the snare of good people.

Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt.