Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.

religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

Years should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or consider them? In the world of wild Nature, time is measured by seasons only-the bird does not know how old it is-the rose-tree does not count its birthdays!

Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.