Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot?

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.