A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.

Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.

Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.

The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.