I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do — so much have I enjoyed it.

They were pretty tired by now of course; but not what I’d call bitterly tired – only slow and feeling very dreamy and tired as one does when one is coming to the end of a long day in the open.

And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.