The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder. The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to the control of the will. It is the bodily symbol of identity with nature. We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self, and the eyes will not lie, but make a faithful confession what inhabitant is there.

We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Goodness that preaches undoes itself.

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul