Wonder & Joy

“…my fancy flies to an English railway station where I once dreamed a dream.”

“Every one of the main human interests was in old times made a part of the creed. Every one of those human interests is now put apart by itself, as if it were a monomania like collecting stamps.”

“The mere materialist is a body that has lost its head; the mere spiritualist is a head that has mislaid its body.”

“…people who are sentimental day and night are among the most atrocious of the enemies of society. Dealing with them is like seeing an interminable number of poetical sunsets going on in the early morning.”