Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

For you are you, and I am I, and once we were we… but as long as I exist and so do you – know that I will always love you.

We appear to be saying something very important aboutsomething: and actually we are only saying something about our own feelings.

It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.

I'm too open minded that I don't know what to mind anymore.

An important characteristic of calm abiding meditation is to let go of any goal and simply sit for the sake of sitting. We breathe in and out, and we just watch that. Nothing else.

I'm like a slow starter. Everything I've done has built, or has taken a while.

From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others.

Don't be normal. Be an example.

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