In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.

Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another.

A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.