Samuel Butler: Love in your hearts as idly burns As fire in antique Roman urns.

Love in your hearts as idly burns As fire in antique Roman urns. — Samuel Butler

Love in your hearts as idly burns As fire in antique Roman urns.
Thought pure and simple is as near to God as we can get; it is through this that — Samuel Butler
God does not intend people, and does not like people, to be too good. He likes t — Samuel Butler
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have. — Samuel Butler
An energy is a soul — a something working in us. — Samuel Butler
Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night. — John Dryden
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts. — John Dryden
Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love. But love, like — José Martí
Je ne vous aime pas, Hylas; Je n'en saurois dire la cause; Je sais seulement une — Paraphrase of Martial by Robert Rabutin
To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fil — Sarah Stickney Ellis
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as — Oscar Wilde
Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I a — Abraham Lincoln
Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one. — Henry David Thoreau