The past is perpetual youth to the heart.

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

Our task is to carry the Lord's peace into every situation, into every duty.

She lives the poetry she cannot write

While the Holy Spirit is hidden, He is never, ever absent

Life is not about making dough or how many movies you can make in a year. It's about finding someone that you can share things with.

The issue of managing through a crisis is you have to be decisive even if you don't have perfect information.

The more you devote yourself to study of the sacred utterances, the richer will be your understanding of them, just as the more the soil is tilled, the richer the harvest.

It's a Slobberknocker!

We're all in this together. Choose love.

Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly.

You've got to be good or as bad as the devil.