Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me
Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid--necessarily goes to the roots of action! Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?
There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.