Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.

Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.

We are not made for law, we are made for love.

The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and awake like joy in others of God's children.

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.