The heart is forever inexperienced.

What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!

There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.

As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence.

Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.