There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.

The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.

Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.