He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.

All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.

Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.