It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge of sense and that impression of mystic strangeness which otherwise passes out of life with the coming of years; but the sight of a loved face is what renews a man's character from the fountain upwards.

You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.