That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.

The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, buta sweet, natural goodness, a goodness like thine and mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.

All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.

Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.