NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make read more

NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.

It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now read more

It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors.

The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the read more

The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job v.7.

Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job v.7.

There can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.

There can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.

Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it read more

Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on.

O you much partial gods!
Why gave ye men affections, and not power
To govern them?

O you much partial gods!
Why gave ye men affections, and not power
To govern them?

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.