💬 Quotes

"Search for the moon, if any would explore / Where vanish all things lost on earthly shore."

"O great in arms, and nobler far in mind, / Whose equal never mortal shall find."

"O damned lust, what woes dost thou devise, / What blinding scales o'erturn our mortal eyes!"

"I set apart this day for solemn prayer with fasting. In the morning I was very cold and dead in my spirit, but the Lord helped me afterwards."

"The judgments of God are abroad in the world: In New England, God is testifying against us by sickness, and by Indians, and by our divisions."

"Read over the greatest part of the Greek Testament. Oh, how much do I miss of what I might attain unto in regard to learning and knowledge!"

"This day a church meeting was held. There had been sinful contentions among them. I exhorted them to love and peace, and God was pleased to melt their hearts."

"I dreamed that I was preaching with much liberty and presence of God. Woke up with my heart much affected with the things of another world."

"It is a day of prayer throughout the colony. Oh, that New England might remember from whence she is fallen, and repent, and do her first works!"

"To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life."

"Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake."

"The service of philosophy, and of religion and art, to us is just to rouse, to startle this indifferent sea of the mind to life and action."

"A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the greatest possible ripeness of mind?"

"The beauty of the Renaissance is an untrue beauty, because it is the beauty of a feverish night, of a world about to be superseded."

"All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music."

"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."

"I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith."

"Reason has insight only into that which it produces after a plan of its own."

"Time is not something which exists of itself, or as an objective property, and it is therefore the subjective condition of our intuition."

"The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space."