Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.