Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.