Deed done is well begun.

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

Here we find the moat of thieves. And just as a lizard, with a quick, slick slither, Flicks across the highway from hedge to hedge, Fleeter than a flash, in the battering dog-day weather, A fiery little monster, livid, in a rage, Black as any peppercorn, came and made a dart At the guts of the others, and leaping to engage One of the pair, it pierced him at the part Through which we first draw food; then loosed its grip And fell before him, outstretched and apart.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.