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

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.

I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.