On the publishing of the Brownings' letters:
"I am not prepared to admit that there is or can be, properly speaking, in the world anything that is too sacred ot be known. That spiritual beauty and spiritual truth are in their nature communicable, and that they should be communicated, is a principle which lies at the root of every conceivable religion. Christ was crucified upon a hiss, and not in a cavern, and the word Gospel itself involves the same idea sa the ordianry name of a daily paper." 63-4
"THe ridiculous theory that men shouldhave no noble passions or sentiments in public may have been designed to make private life holy and undefiled, but it has had very little actual effect except to make public life cynical and preposterously unmeaning." 65
"Our wisdom, whether expressed in private or public, belongs to the world, but our folly belongs to those we love." 65
From one of R.B.'s letters to E.B.:
"let me get out of this slough of a simile, never mind with what dislocated ankles." 66
On friend Kenyon:
"He is thoroughly to be congratulated on the fact that he had grasped the great but now neglected truth, that a man may actually be great, yet not in the least able." 70
On the elopement:
"He had always had the courage to tell the truth; and not it was demanded of him to have the greater courage to tell a lie..." 75
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