“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love .”

“Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies, all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression to silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.”

“What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?”

“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”

“A child, more than all other giftsThat earth can offer to declining man,Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts."—WORDSWORTH.”

“There are episodes in most men's lives in which their highest qualities can only cast a deterring shadow over the objects that fill their inward version.”

“Her anger said, as anger is apt to say, that God was with her— that all heaven, though it were crowded with spirits watching them, must be on her side.”