Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.

When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed.

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?