Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.

Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

Souls live on in perpetual echoes.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .