Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.

God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he being dead. Well said one of his friend, "Thou half of my soul"; for I felt that my soul and his soul were "one soul in two bodies": and therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would not live halved. And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly.

The verdict of the world is conclusive.

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

Now, may our God be our hope. He Who made all things is better than all things. He Who made all beautiful things is more beautiful than all of them. He Who made all mighty things is more mighty than all of them. He Who made all great things is greater than all of them. Learn to love the Creator in His creature, and the maker in what He has made.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.