What is better than to love and live with the loved? But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury.
What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
The perpetual mourner – the grief that can never be healed – is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest of the world. And my sense of desolation increases. Each day seems a new beginning — a new acquaintance with grief.
The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
The idea of God, so far as it has been a high spiritual influence, is the ideal of a goodness entirely human.
The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.
The fact is, both callers and work thicken – the former sadly interfering with the latter.
The clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.
The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside, in memory or imagination.
