People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals.

We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

There is another world, but it is in this one.

I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again.

Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.

It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.