Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.

A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.

Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God's care and pity for every separate need.

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

I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.

There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.