There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

And no one has the right to say that no water-babies exist, till they have seen no water-babies existing; which is quite a different thing, mind, from not seeing water-babies; and a thing which nobody ever did, or perhaps will ever do. But surely ... they would have put it into spirits, or into the Illustrated News, or perhaps cut it into two halves, poor dear little thing, and sent one to Professor Owen, and one to Professor Huxley, to see what they would each say about it.

Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?

I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song.

So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.

Nature's deepest laws, her only true laws, are her invisible ones.