A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

If only the good were a little less heavy-footed

This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom. Sometimes he awoke in the morning and felt nothing; his soul leaped, for he thought he was free; he loved no longer; but in a little while, as he grew wide awake, the pain settled in his heart, and he knew that he was not cured yet.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.