When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."

But memory is an autumn leaf that murmurs a while in the wind and then is heard no more.

A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.

Everyone has experienced that truth: that love, like a running brook, is disregarded, taken for granted; but when the brook freezes over, then people begin to remember how it was when it ran, and they want it to run again.