If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.

Every mortal loss is an immortal gain.

Love is weak when there is more doubt than there is trust, but love is most strong when you learn to trust even with all the doubts. If a thing loves, it is infinite.

A dead body revenges not injuries.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?

And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')