There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.
Nature is saturated with Deity.
Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?
Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.