You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.

When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.

Will you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but queens? There is no putting by that crown; queens you must always be; queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas! you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy.

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.