It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

The life of the soul is incalculable.

I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.

I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle river and the trees are in their festive hues. I am not festive, though contented. When obliged to give myself to the prose of life, as I am on this occasion of being established in a new home I like to do the thing, wholly and quite, - to weave my web for the day solely from the grey yarn.

To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.