“Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.”

Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.

When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.

We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!

To philosophize means to make vivid.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.

Humanity is a comic role.

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .

Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?

Her delicate breasts shake his enormous apparatus in elaborate worship.

Love is knowing that she is delicate and not breaking her still.

Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.

The trust to hold what is delicate within you should only be given to someone whose hands are as gentle as your heart.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

A tiny bit of obscure delicacy written all over her face at all times.