Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage read more

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous
judgment.

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous
judgment.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt read more

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try read more

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. - read more

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. - The Art of Worldy Wisdom, 1647.

Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to read more

Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

The South Wind
has for the evening
donned
jasmine scent.

The South Wind
has for the evening
donned
jasmine scent.

But every thyng which schyneth as the gold,
Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told.

But every thyng which schyneth as the gold,
Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told.