I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work.
Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.
But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.
Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.
It is a joy to be choked with thought.
There will always be a spiritual light that beckons to us, giving us the hope of rescue and relief.
I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.