Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes

The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

‎A change of work is the best rest.

How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time.

Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury

Spread the light of love in the spirit of purity of the soul.

Some people pray for miracles ... with Cosmic Ordering YOU manifest them!

Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me

The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?

I'm not afraid to die. I'm looking forward to it. I know the Lord has His arms wrapped around this big sparrow.

Justified" is even better than "just as if I'd never sinned." It is also "just as if I'd always obeyed.

Immature strategy is the cause of grief.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded.