The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.

Miracle comes to the miraculous, not to the arithmetician.

We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.