I ought to tell you that I'm probably your cousin.

We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.

God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.