Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.