Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.

Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.