People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

These Germans seem an odd race, a mixture of clay and spirit - what with their beer-drinking and smoking, and their slow, stolid ways, you would think them perfectly earth; but ethereal fire is all the while working in them, and bursing out in most unexpected jets of poetry and sentiment, like blossoms on a cactus.

The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future.

The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.

God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.

Mountains are nature's testimonials of anguish. They are the sharp cry of a groaning and travailing creation. Nature's stern agony writes itself on these furrowed brows of gloomy stone. These reft and splintered crags stand, the dreary images of patient sorrow, existing verdureless and stern because exist they must.