In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

I'm going to laugh and jeer and wiggle my ears at your death throes... You can OD on religion or dope or war or toadburgers, for all I care.

Now begin; For look where Beatrice, like a lapwing runs Close by the ground, to hear our conference.

Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.

Anger is a short madness.

It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.

The religious desire and effort of the soul to relate itself and all its interest to God and his will, is prayer in the deepest sense. This is essential prayer: uttered or unexpressed, it is equally prayer. It is the soul's desire after God going forth in a manifestation, ... the soul striving after God. This is a prayer that may exist without ceasing, consisting, as it does, not in doing or saying this or that, but in temper and attitude of the spirit.

And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.

Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Common experience declares how momentary and how useless are those violent fits and gusts of endeavours which proceed from fear and uncertainty, both in things spiritual and things temporal, or civil. Whilst men are under the power of actual impressions from such fears, they will convert to God, yea, they will turn in a moment, and perfect their holiness in an instant; but so soon as that impression wears off (as it will do on every occasion, and upon none at all) such persons are as dead and cold towards God as the lead or iron, which but now ran in a fiery stream, is now when the heat is departed from it.

Fanaticism is . . . overcompensation for doubt.

Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

The heart has reasons which reason does not know.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?

A mother understands what a child does not say.