The sea, unmated creature, tired and lone, Makes on its desolate sands eternal moan. - Frederick William Faber

Other things being equal, a person beginning the spiritual life with a taste for reading has a much greater chance both of advancing and of persevering than one who is destitute of such a taste. Experience shows that it is almost equal to a grace. The hardest thing in the world is to think, that is, to think real thought.

The one chosen shadow of God upon earth.

We must have passed through life very unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.