No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.