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

It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal’s rhythm of rest and activity.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

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

All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.

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