Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb.

Love so sprang at her, she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literature? Someone would have written something. She must not have recognized it. Time to read everything again.

Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensibl e earnest. By a power that is unfathomably secret, and holy, and fleet. There is nothing to be done about it, but ignore it, or see.

The interior life is often stupid.

But enough is enough. One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief. From the depths of mystery, and even from the heights of splendor, we bounce back and hurry for the latitudes of home.

Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.

Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies.