This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish soulfulness. Mothering involves not only physical survival and achievement—Demeter's grain and fruit—it is also concerned with guiding a child to his or her unknown depths and the mystery of fate.

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination

Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.