That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.

To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.

Everytime we say that god is the author of some phenomenon, that signifies that we are ignorant of how such a phenomenon was caused by the forces of nature.

Know what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of Baptism; it is to believe in belief; it is to be so little that elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child had its fairy godmother in its soul.

If all the thought which had been expended on the construction of engines of agony and death - the modes of aggression and defence, the raising of armies, and the acquirement of those arts of tyranny and falsehood without which mixed multitudes could neither be led nor governed - had been employed to promote the true welfare and extend the real empire of man, how different would have been the present situation of human society!

What is Love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves.

It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.