“That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.”

“Whatever limits us,we call Fate”

“We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.”

“Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit, he that thinks most, will say least.”

“It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.”

“That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past?”

“Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.”