The world is a great poem, and the world's The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts.

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.

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

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.

Stranger inside me, when you are born, I will give youa closed book and ask you never to read it, never rest, never forgive a man who wants to save you.

That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.

Distress: A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend.

You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.

Be loving, and you will be lovable. Be open and receptive to love.

Integrity eclipses image.

In the orchard and rose garden I long to see your face. In the taste of Sweetness I long to kiss your lips. In the shadows of passion I long for your love.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.