Time hath a taming hand.

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

Man is emphatically self-made.

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.