The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.

It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.