Earth laughs in flowers.
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
Our faith comes in moments… yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
The eye is easily frightened.
You sold me a dream and it shattered. I didn’t know how to put it back together again. So instead, I’m lovingly gluing those fragments anew with seams of gold, creating a vibrant new dream, rendering the broken strong and more than ever, breathtakingly beautiful.
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his work and in that work he does what he wants to do.
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
Looking? Found someone you have, eh?
The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another Chinese saying about their country which is much more modernit dates only from the fourth century. This is the saying: The tail of China is large and will not be wagged. I like that one. The British democracy approves the principles of movable party heads and unwaggable national tails. It is due to the working of these important forces that I have the honour to be addressing you at this moment.
We hate the kindness which we understand.
Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?
