All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.

Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!