When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.

Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream

Some illusions...are the shadows of great truths.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

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