Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.

One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up

Remember, then, that whoever does not mean good is always in danger of harm. But I try to give everybody fair play, and those that are in the wrong are in far more need of it always than those who are in the right: they can afford to do without it.

Past tears are present strength.

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.

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.

There are women who fly their falcons at any game, little birds and all.