“Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.”
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
All brave men love for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
