Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond our capacity, for directly we say that it is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.

I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.