To remain mysterious, say little and do nothing.
All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.
Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.
When the soil's fertility is being conserved instead of raped, when village life is a social unity, when pride of craftsmanship returns, when everyone works for the sake of adding beauty and importance to life, when every river is clean and bright, and the proud words 'I serve' are in everyone's heart and purpose. Then my country will be good enough for me.
Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.
If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.
Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.
A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God's.
Hungry, you're a dog, angry and bad-natured. having eaten your fill, you become a carcass; you lie down like a wall, senseless. At one time a dog, at another time a carcass, how will you run with lions, or follow the saints?
The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.
These days it's hard to look at a poodle without thinking what a good meal he would make.