meaning Quotes

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Be not simply good - be good for something.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?