The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

People must not choose their neighbors; they must take the neighbors that God sends them. The neighbor is just the person who is next to you at the moment, the person with whom any business has brought you into contact.

Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop on the shining sea, the wavering, trembling, unresting sail below is fairer still...All mirrors are magic mirrors. The commonest room is a room in a poem when I turn to the glass...There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

What can money do to console a man with a headache?

Past tears are present strength.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.