I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.

Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.

A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.