“God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, and thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, a gauntlet with a gift in it
“At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction
“World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain
“The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul
“How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital
“Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labour done