Coventry Patmore

"I vowed unvarying faith, and she To whom in full I pay that vow, Rewards me with variety Which men who change can never know."

"He is irrational, however well he may be able to reason, who does not clearly see that good is good and truth truth."

"Life is not life at all without delight."

"As the Word of God is Gods image, so the word of man is his image, and "a man is known by his speech."

"The proper study of mankind is woman."

"Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century."

"The midges wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter "O!"

"The dull and heavy hate of fools."

"To have nought Is to have all things without care or thought!"

"Man, when he is in health and order of soul and body, is Mount Olympus, and in him, so long as he confesses that he is nothing in himself, are sensibly apparent the powers and majesties, beauties and beatitudes of all Gods and Goddesses."

"Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom."

"Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most obscure book in the world. He must be a great fool who thinks he understands the plainest chapter of it."