Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.
But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?
Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.
The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar, unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge.
The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it enlarges the imagined range for self to move in: but in after years it can only continue to be joy on the same terms as other long-lived love--that is, by much suppression of self, and power of living in the experience of another.
The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood.
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories
I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.
To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.
We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.
Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.
It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.
To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.
Joy is the best of wine.
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .
The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.
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