When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it.
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
Man’s own youth is the world’s youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth’s granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.
The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
Happiness is like a butterfly – the more you chase, the more subtle, but if you stop moving and quietly wait for it to land on you.
She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.
What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you.
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings as now in October.