“His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.”

“But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.”

“She returned his gaze, struck by the sense of her own transformation, and overwhelmed by the beauty which a lifetime havit had taught her to ignore.”

“The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.”

“One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.”

“A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.”

“From the moment of His self-dedication, when He threw His cares away, and went forth not knowing where to lay His head, the whole energy which others spend on interests of their own was poured into His human and Divine affections, and filled His life with an enthusiasm resistless and unique. However quiet His words, it is impossible not to feel the tender depths from which they come.”

“There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.”

“The country must be governed by someone who really loves his people and his land, who shares wealth and progress. I have all that, only that I am ignorant.”

“The suffering man ought really 'to consume his own smoke'; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire, — which, in the metaphorical sense too, all smoke is capable of becoming!”