To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.

Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.

To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere.

What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.