There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.

Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?

It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

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.