Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.

My wife is - in the strictest sense - my sole companion, and I need no other. There is no vacancy in my mind any more than in my heart.

A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.

Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any; standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.

Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen.