Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.

Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.