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

Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Nothing at times is more expressive than silence.

There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.

Man cannot choose his duties.

Effective magic is transcendent nature.