It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born.

Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.

A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.

Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.