Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart.

The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.

He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.