In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.

Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.

The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.

No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.

We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy grows to a man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall and builds it new and bigger.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!