He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

There is no "next" after you are dead and gone from your own world.

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.

We live in the world when we love it.

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.