We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll.

it may be said of me by Harper & Brothers, that although I reject their proposals, I welcome their advances.

No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.

Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell.

I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore.