It is easy to talk on religion$$$ but difficult to practice it.

That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge$$$ all else is only a negation of Knowledge.

PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur$$$ but the deep are dumb;

The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt - they meditate$$$ protest$$$ analyze$$$ reason$$$ calculate and brood$$$ but they do not exalt.

Happiness held is the seed$$$ happiness shared is the flower.

The joy of someone who had been a reader all her life$$$ whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.

Allow not sleep to close your eyes<br>Before three times reflecting on<br>Your actions of the day. What deeds<br>Done well$$$ what not$$$ what left undone?

He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.

Death has come in the pantry door: stands watching them$$$ iron and patient$$$ with a look that says "try to tickle me."

[...] times of great idealism carry equal chances for great corruptibility.