I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot my morning prayer or else it was irksome to me. One by one my old habits returned and I cared less for religion than ever.

How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul.

To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.

The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

To shut your eyes is to travel.

I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given.

Till I loved I never lived.