Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

Contemplation gives direction to our knowledge and leads to realization.

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.