He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.

Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.

We read to know we are not alone.

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.