I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.