Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight-that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

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.

Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

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