At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

But so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware.

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain

Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.

Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.