Quotes

"Moon, for what do you wait?" "To salute the sun for whom I must make way."

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling.

You are good when you are one with yourself.

O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.

The study door flew open, the little red wrapper appeared on the threshold, joy put strength into the feeble limbs, and Beth ran straight into her father’s arms.

For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.

Man is a born child, his power is the power of growth.

The aim of life is self-development.

I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding.

The man was still in the making, as much as the Middlemarch doctor and immortal discoverer, and there were both virtues and faults capable of shrinking or expanding.

You are a good doctor, Teddy, and such a comfortable friend.

The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulses dance and my heart sing.

It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

Let their faculties have room to unfold, and their virtues to gain strength, and then determine where the whole sex must stand in the intellectual scale.

The harmony of soul and body—how much that is!

Keep thyself therefore, truly simple, good, sincere, grave, free from all ostentation, a lover of that which is just, religious, kind, tender-hearted, strong and vigorous to undergo anything that becomes thee.