Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.

Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.

As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.