They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult.

Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.

It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.

The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul.

For the bliss of the animals lies in this, that, on their lower level, they shadow the bliss of those--few at any moment on the earth--who do not 'look before and after, and pine for what is not,' but live in the holy carelessness of the eternal now.

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.