I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things

And, indeed, what little of beauty and peace is to be found in the societies of men is owing to the daily performance of small duties, not to big doings and fine talk.

Truth reveals itself in beauty.

The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.

The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air