He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.

The gift without the giver is rare.

God'll send the bill to you.

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it.