Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning. It disclosed a great hole that went plumb-down. "That is the way," he said. "But there are no stairs." "You must throw yourself in. There is no other way.

But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.

You doubt because you love truth.

Blessed be the true life that the pauses between its throbs are not death!

All love will, one day, meet with its return. All true love will, one day, behold its own image in the eyes of the beloved, and be humbly glad.

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

The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.