Nothing but what astonishes is true.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Too low they build who build below the skies.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?

Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday, " that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

We must not wait for favours from Nature

Rainbows is a pretty honest look at my approach to life and love. While I admit to not exactly being an angel, I do try and live life to the fullest and give as much as I can of myself in the process

It's good to have a short memory because it keeps life fresh.

If everyone catches the cold virus it just... might make you fall into Onew Condition for a while!

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.

At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.