Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.

In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.

The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.

He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.