The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it
I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
All clean and comfortable I sit down to write.
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.