It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.

Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

A thought once awakened does not again slumber.