One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.

If others have sinned you need not mention it

Source Unknown

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

LaoTzu

The Christian church is an encyclopaedia of prehistoric cults and conceptions of the most diverse orgiin and that is why it is so capable of proselytising: it always could and it can still go wherever it pleases and it always found and it always finds something similar to itself to which it can adapt itself and gradually impose upon it a Christian meaning.

Friedrich Nietzsche

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

Loved once for ever loved: how surely sounds This gospel to me since I learned to list Truth from thy lips, mine own evangelist. What thought presumes to set now any bounds To Love whose being informs us and surrounds?

John Barlas

People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

Victor Hugo

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

John Muir

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

Thomas Jefferson

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

Plutarch

Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to MH.

Ambrose Bierce

It is the sin that believes in nothing,cares for nothing,seeks to know nothing,interferes with nothing,enjoys nothing,hates nothing,finds purpose in nothing,lives for nothing,and remains alivebecause there is nothing for which it will die.

Dorothy L. Sayers, On Boredom

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

William Shakespeare