Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Life is a . We are thrown into it, and tried. The actual weight and value of a man are expressed in the spiritual substance of the man. All else is .

Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.