It needs brains to be a real fool.

The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still, to be a right man, be his mother's darling, and more, his father's pride, and more. The child is not meant to die, but to be forever fresh born.

If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.

The time for speaking seldom arrives, the time for being never departs.

It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.

One who not merely beholds the outward shows of things, but catches a glimpse of the soul that looks out of them, whose garment and revelation they are-if he be such, I say, he will stand, for more than a moment, speechless with something akin to that which made the morning stars sing together.

I tell you, there are more worlds, and more doors to them, than you will think of in many years!