Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught. C. P. CranchThought.
The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea. George EliotDaniel Deronda. Bk. II. Ch. XVII.
Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden. LongfellowEvangeline. Pt. II. Sc. 2. L. 212.
For there are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion, That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. LongfellowCourtship of Miles Standish. Pt. VI. Priscilla. L. 12.
The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till wakd and kindled by the masters spell, And feeling hearts touch them but lightlypour A thousand melodies unheard before! Saml RogersHuman Life. L. 359.