reflection Quotes

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

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?

Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.