All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me. There is marvel and charm enough in that for me.

With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself

Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.