Feeling loves a subdued light.

America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

A good, finished scandal, fully armed and equipped, such as circulates in the world, is rarely the production of a single individual, or even of a single coterie. It sees the light in one; is rocked and nurtured in another; is petted, developed, and attains its growth in a third; and receives its finishing touches only after passing through a multitude of hands. It is a child that can count a host of fathers--all ready to disown it.

Miracles are God's coups d'etat.