Some force whole regions, in despite O' geography, to change their site; Make former times shake hands with latter, And that which was before come after; But those that write in rhyme still make The one verse for the other's sake; For one for sense, and one for rhyme, I think's sufficient at one time.

One good man, one man who does not put on his religion once a week with his Sunday coat, but wears it for his working dress, and lets the thought of God grow into him, and through and through him, till everything he says and does becomes religious, that man is worth a thousand sermons -- he is a living Gospel -- he comes in the spirit and power of Elias -- he is the image of God. And men see his good works, and admire them in spite of themselves, and see that they are God-like, and that God's grace is no dream, but that the Holy Spirit is still among men, and that all nobleness and manliness is His gift, His stamp, His picture: and so they get a glimpse of God again in His saints and heroes, and glorify their Father who is in heaven.

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while And like a peacock sweep along his tail; We'll pull his plumes and take away his train, If Dauphin and the rest will be but ruled.

In durance vile.

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.

To belittle is to be little.

Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices & strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage, the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world. - Maurice Maeterlinck, Measure of the Hours,

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.

To build castles in Spain.

He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.

When you're really poor, everything you see is something you can't have.

The Heifer and the Ox A heifer saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plow, and tormented him with reflections on his unhappy fate in being compelled to labor. Shortly afterwards, at the harvest festival, the owner released the Ox from his yoke, but bound the Heifer with cords and led him away to the altar to be slain in honor of the occasion. The Ox saw what was being done, and said with a smile to the Heifer: For this you were allowed to live in idleness, because you were presently to be sacrificed.