All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.