“One does not have to be a priest to be a man!”

“Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage?”

“Is it ever thus, at the end of things? Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage?”

“If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.”

“I do think he hated him as one man will hate another who draws off the affection of a beloved.”

“No wonder simple men have always had their gods dwell in the high places. For as soon as a man lets his eye drop from the heavens to the horizon, he risks setting it on some scene of desolation.”

“To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.”