Nothingness is capacity, and night the opportunity of light. - Coventry Patmore

Ninety-nine men in a hundred are natural men, that is, beasts of prey; and it is mere insanity, in business matters, to deal with a stranger upon any other assumption than that he is a natural man, though we should veil our knowledge of the actual fact by a courteous recognition in words and manners of his better possibilities.

Life's warp of Heaven and woof of Hell.

A man may read Plato without clearly comprehending much of what he means. He cannot read him without becoming, in some degree, a changed man.