By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.

The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.

Nature is the living, visible garment of God.

Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings

Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.

You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.