Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.

Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions."

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.

Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.

Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be encumbrances.

Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom bursts the sod. The winter comes: the frozen rut Is bound with silver bars; the white drift heaps against the hut; and night is pierced with stars.

O, Heart, remember thee That Man is none, Save One.