Great peace is found in little busy-ness.

What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.

All good things must come to an end.

The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

Many small make a great.

Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.

That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.

Patience is a conquering virtue.

In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.

The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.

Those who can show love are always kind. Those who cannot show love cannot be kind.

Sometimes you want to cry but the tears deceive you, but at other, you just want to hold the tears but they disobey you.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence of the sentence, are really important to me in prose.

I don't read much of anything online.

Life is pain, so live it up while you can.

We are in an interesting place in the evolution in our community in the people want to be indistinguishable from heterosexuals. I love the individuality I see in our community.

Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it! Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity.

They will come, not to paint the bay and the sea and the boots and the moors, but the warmth of the sun and the colour of the wind. A whole new concept. Such stimulation. Such vitality.