My mother may no longer be (if she ever was) a mast to which I can rope myself. But I fear the loss of Lesley. Without her observance, and her sturdy presence, I would feel windblown.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

One shouldn't envy another person's Destiny!As the fate written for everyone is not the same but surely a good one.

Race and class were a kind of destiny

It rewrites the contract, I'd read somewhere. Your self's no longer central. This thing comes out of you and drags half your soul along after it like a blanket.

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

There is absolutely nothing in what Jesus himself or his early followers taught that suggests you can decide just to enjoy forgiveness at Jesus' expense and have nothing more to do with him.

Disaster comes only because of ignorance.

Honor the words that enter and attach to your brain.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.