“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”

“One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.”

“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”

“We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.”

“My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before,—a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.”

“Work it harder, make it better, do it faster, makes us stronger. More than ever hour after, our work is never over.”