Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong

mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, mor e last than star. -e.e. cummings most people are perfectly afraid of silence -e.e. cummings Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk back ward. -e.e. cummings notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening --e.e. cummings Be of love a little more careful than of anything. -e. e. cummings The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he comes down to human affairs. -Cicero It is meet that noble minds keep over with their likes; for who so firm that can not be seduced. -William Shakespeare The atheist is one who fain would pull God from his throne, and in the place of heaven's eternal king set up the phantom chance. -Glynn The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of a superior genius. -Chesterfield Attention makes the genius: all learning, fancy, science, and skill depend upon it. Newton traced his great discoveries to it. It builds bridges, opens new worlds, heals diseases, carries on the business of tho world. Without it taste is useless, and the beauties of literature unobserved. -Willmo t If I have made any improvement in the sciences, it is owing more to patient atte ntion than to anything beside. -Isaac Newton If there be anything that can he called genius, it consists chiefly in ability t o give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides. -Reid It is attention, more than any difference in native powers that makes the wide d ifference between minds and men. In this is the' source of poetic genius, and of the genius of discovery in science. It was this that led Newton to the inventio n of fluxions, and the discovery of gravitation, and Harvey to find out the circ ulation of the blood, and Davy to those views which laid the foundation of moder n chemistry. -Brodie The two most engaging powers of an author, are, to make new things familiar, and familiar things new. -Johnson No author is so poor that he cannot be of some service, if only as a witness of his time. -Fauchet To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to posse ss at once intellect, soul, and taste. -Buffon The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but becau se they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before. -Goethe Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark, ye t as sure he is he shall shoot higher than who aims but at a bush. -Philip Sidn ey A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speak ing. --Philip Sidney When it shall please God to bring thee to man's estate, use great providence and circumspection in choosing thy wife. For from thence will spring all thy future good or evil, and it is an action of life like unto a stratagem of war, wherein a man can err but once. -Philip Sidney Every occasion will catch the senses of the vain man, and with that bridle and s addle you may ride him. -Philip Sidney In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of fore-taken opinions; else, whatso ever is done or said will be measured by a wrong rule. -Philip Sidney For grammar it [poetry] might have, but it needs it not; being so easy in itself , and so void of those cumbersome differences of cases, genders, moods, and tens

es, which, I think, was a piece of the Tower of Babylon's curse, that a man shou ld be put to school to learn his mother-tongue. -Philip Sidney It is the privilege of every believer to refuse to worry or have anxiety. As bel ievers, we can enter the rest of God. The promise is unchanged. The danger is th at we may fail to reach it because of disobedience and unbelief. -Joyce Meyer, Battlefield of the Mind: 100 Insights That Will Change the Way You Think. God in his wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why. -Ogden Nash Some primal termite knocked on wood And tasted it, and found it good! And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor today. -Ogden Nash When people reject a truth or an untruth it is not because it is a truth or an u ntruth that they reject it. -Ogden Nash No two people have had the same experiences and no two people have the exact sam e temperaments. That is why no two people can agree on everything. The odds are stacked against any two people coming to identical conclusions on every issue a nd opinion of life. -China Sinclair The trouble with a kitten is that it eventually becomes a cat. -Ogden Nash There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, And who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something ter rible and then make amends. -Ogden Nash There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, And that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. -Ogden Nash Women would rather be right than reasonable. -Ogden Nash Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant ev ery 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing. --Ogden Nash Dogs display reluctance and wrath If you try to give them a bath. They bury bones in hideaways And half the time they trot sideaways. -Ogden Nash Don't write about what you know write about what you're interested in. Don't wri te about yourself you aren't as interesting as you think. -Tracy Chevalier I was sure that I was going to write stories myself when I grew up. It's importa nt to put it like that: not 'I am a writer,' but rather 'I write stories.' If yo u put the emphasis on yourself rather than your work, you're in danger of thinki ng that you're the most important thing. But you're not. The story is what matte rs, and you're only the servant, and your job is to get it out on time and in go od order. -Philip Pullman I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end.