Today is a goblet day. The whole heavens have been mingled with exquisite skill to a delicious flavor, and the crystal cup put to every lip. Breathing is like ethereal drinking. It is a luxury simply to exist.

I never know how to worship until I know how to love.

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.