We may think all religions beneficial, and believe of one alone that it is true.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

We can only love what we know.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

The first pale blossom of the unripened year.

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing.

Fix your gazes on the invisible.

My old man taught me to never trust anything that bleeds for three days and doesn't die.

There's writing power in one word sentences and one sentence paragraphs. Wise authors use them. -Judith Briles

Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I'm not sure what took them so long to see that or how long they'll keep it up.

Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty.

The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of fish we catch.

Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.