“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.

Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.

Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?

It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.

How many gifts and graces You have given me! How many favors You have fed me from your hand! I look for your love in all directions, then suddenly its blessing burns in me.

Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?

Don’t feed yourself up with personal growth tips when you are not ready for it.

It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.

If someone hates your guts, feed it to them if someone loves your guts, they’re probably a zombie.

The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed.

I love doing shows. I love rocking shows. I love playing instruments. I love singing. If I can find a way to do that and feed my family, then I’m a happy man.

A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.