Time hides no treasures; we want not its then, but its now.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.

Not secondary to the sun, she gives us his blaze again, Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day... In Heaven queen she is among the spheres; She, mistress-like, makes all things to be pure.

Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.

As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.