We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.

Fashion and riches will mask much annoyance.

Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught.

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.

No night so wild but brings the constant sun With love and power untold; No time so dark but through its woof there run Some blessed threads of gold.

Beautiful and rare Aurora, In the heavens thou art their Flora

December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond summer sympathies ensnared; Nor from the perfect circle of the year Can even winter's crystal gems be spared.

O Light divine! we need no fuller test That all is ordered well; We know enough to trust that all is best Where Love and Wisdom dwell.

We are spirits clad in veils.

I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting.

I saw this was the way of the future, to leave the past behind as if it were a dream.

It is in community where we find our very selves.

That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.

I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband.

I’m always feeling death, and that is a part of life. When you know a lot of people, you will always experience death.

It is my fate that some of my questions will never be answered.

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

I believe that to command is to serve and only gives one the right to serve.

As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.

I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.