The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.

The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.

What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.