The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes.

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.

Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.

Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.

The egoist does not tolerate egoism.

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!

We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.