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

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.

All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.