A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.

Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.

He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else in the world is of any consequence.

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

The peace and beauty of a spring day had descended upon the earth like a benediction.

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.