But it is not the rich man only who is under the dominion of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.

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

If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.

Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire.

Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.

No one is likely to remember what is entirely uninteresting to him.

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.