To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.

The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.