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.

It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.

'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

After all, the true seeing is within.