His stories are good to hear at night, because we can dream about them asleep; and good in the morning, too, because then we can dream about them awake. (Cowslip)

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

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

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

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

Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors! The best study for such a day, or the best amusement,—call it which you will,—is a book of travels, describing scenes the most unlike that sombre one

Every crime destroys more Edens than our own