You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.