Mysteries are not to be solved. They eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!

What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.

Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.