As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.
Thomas TraherneThe sense itself was I. I felt no dross or matter in my soul, no brims or borders, such as in a bowl we see. My essence was capacity.
Thomas TraherneTill you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world.
Thomas TraherneIt is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in us for asking. Do not your inclinations tell you that the WORLD is yours? Do you not covet all? Do you not long to have it; to enjoy it; to overcome it? To what end do men gather riches, but to multiply more? Do they not like Pyrrhus the King of Epire, add house to house and lands to lands, that they may get it all?
Thomas Traherne