The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.

Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.

Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.

A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.