Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Life is to be lived, not controlled.

The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.