Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

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

I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.