He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.

Fashion and riches will mask much annoyance.

Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught.

No night so wild but brings the constant sun With love and power untold; No time so dark but through its woof there run Some blessed threads of gold.

Beautiful and rare Aurora, In the heavens thou art their Flora

December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond summer sympathies ensnared; Nor from the perfect circle of the year Can even winter's crystal gems be spared.

O Light divine! we need no fuller test That all is ordered well; We know enough to trust that all is best Where Love and Wisdom dwell.

We are spirits clad in veils.

I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting.

We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

Do you love me?’ he asked instead. ‘Because if you don’t, I’d wait until you did. I’d wait weeks and months and years.

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men to be seen of them.

While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make.

When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.

With four people you can create one very strong kind of energy, but if you can get 65 people working together, and swinging together, that's a whole other kind of energy.

With no surroundings there can be no path, and with no path one cannot become free.

I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.

Go do the right thing.

Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.