We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

Effective magic is transcendent nature.

How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.