We all to some extent meet again and again the same people and certainly in some cases form a kind of family of two or three or more persons who come together life after life until all passionate relations are exhausted, the child of one life the husband, wife, brother, sister of the next. Sometimes, however, a single relationship will repeat itself, turning its revolving wheel again and again.

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.

I believe... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.

And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.

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.