Thought is the seed of action.
Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.
The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.
Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.
It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . .