No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.

Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.

Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.

O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!

One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.

Why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?