Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.

We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession.

There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord: we are not to do, but to let do; not to work, but to be worked upon.