If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

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?

Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.