The answer was characteristic, for, with her who made it, the influences that shape have always seemed more significant than the things that are shapen.
None can know for another the mysteries of spiritual companionship.
I can well understand the one of whom I write. With most of us the shaping influences are the common sweet influences of motherhood and fatherhood, the airs of home, the place and manner of childhood. But these are not for all, and may be adverse, and in some degree absent. When we consider, could any influences be deeper than these three elemental powers, for ever young, yet older than age, beautiful immortalities that whisper continuously against our mortal ear. I think sometimes that these three are one, and that Silence is his inward voice and the Wind the sound of his unwearying feet.