Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

Severn - I - lift me up - I am dying - I shall die easy; don't be frightened - be firm, and thank God it has come.

What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.

Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!

Works of genius are the first things in the world.

Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children.