Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.

Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame.

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion, and teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.

But it is impossible that the creative power should exclude itself. Into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed,through which the creator passes.

The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.