The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.
The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.