Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life— the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it— can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity in...
The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.
It is strange how deeply colors seem to penetrate one, like scent. I suppose that is the reason why gems are used as spiritual emblems in the Revelation of St John. They look like fragments of heaven....
She locked herself in her room. She needed time to get used to her maimed consciousness, her poor lopped life, before she could walk steadily to the place allotted her. A new searching light had falle...
Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
But I have a belief of my own, and it comforts me. What is that? said Will, rather jealous of the belief.That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and can not d...