Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.

The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.

Not seeing is half-believing.

A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.