Obedience is not servility. On the contrary the servile are never rightly obedient. - John Lancaster Spalding

Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all others.

The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow the noblest ideals: for the truths which science ignores and must ignore are precisely those which have the deepest bearing on life and conduct.

There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.