There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.

True knowledge comes only through suffering.

And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain

It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.

And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

Books are men of higher stature.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.