The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.

Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.

The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.

The secret anniversaries of the heart.