Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.

Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.

Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.

Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers.

Prepare, You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods: Not like hard life, of laws.

Caricature is rough truth.

Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.