Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the whole, is doubt; We cannot believe by proof: but could we believe without?

Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease.

Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

Today will die tomorrow.

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

I remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met; You hoped we were both broken-hearted And knew we should both forget.

The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.

A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul.

When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.

Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.

Success comes only through strong will, determination and effort.

In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out.

Seven days without love makes one weak.

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.

When you're reading the Word of God, you need to let it soak in and let God speak to your heart and let the Holy Spirit work.

When you reach out to hurting people, that’s when God is going to make sure your needs are supplied. When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.

I would love to eat a really great burger, but it doesn't exist in our part of the world.

Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations.