What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.