“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”

“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”

“Tom had never found any difficulty in discerning a pointer from a setter, when once he had been told the distinction, and his perceptive powers were not at all deficient. I fancy they were q...”

“Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.”

“[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an ear straining after dreamy music that died away and would not...”