Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.

Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt each other by their very attempts at sympathy or consolation. We can bear no hand on our bruises.

A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.

It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.

People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.