The highest virtue here may be least in another world.
You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth.
The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.
Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?
Your saying ‘I do not understand you’ is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve.
I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I? When love becomes vast love becomes wordless. And when memory is overladen it seeks the silent deep.
In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each other’s speech, with the brook that ran near them, and the laughter of Jesus was the merrier. And they conversed long.
Men would bless you or curse you; The curse, a protest against failure, The blessing, a hymn of the hunter Who comes back from the hills With provision for his mate.
A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.
He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
If winter should say, ‘Spring is in my heart,’ who would believe winter?
Learn the words of wisdom uttered by the wise and apply them in your own life. Live them – but do not a make a show of reciting them, for he who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass loaded with books.
Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?
Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.
He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.
I have pondered long, and I know now that only the pure of heart forgive the thirst that leads to dead waters. And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.
He was gentle, like a man mindful of his own strength. In my dreams I beheld the kings of the earth standing in awe in His presence.
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
It is only when you are pursued that you become swift.
Love has the power that dispels death; charm that conquers the enemy.