“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."”

“The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.”

“One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.”

“The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.”

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”

“How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.”

“If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.”

“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot but make it hot by striking. ”

“I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.”

“I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'”

“Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.”