Quotes About Author

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

In the work of a writer of genius, we rediscover our own neglected thoughts.

There's nothing capricious in nature, and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feels it.

Rectitude is a perpetual victory, celebrated not by cries of joy but by serenity, which is joy fixed or habitual.

When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

The laws of friendship are great, austere, and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

What we call obscure condition or vulgar society is that condition and society whose poetry is not yet written, but which you shall presently make as enviable and renowned as any.

Religion is the perception of that power which constructs the greatness of the centuries out of the paltriness of the hours.

Many times the reading of a book has made the fortune of the man-has decided his way of life. 'Tis a tie between men to have been delighted with the same book.

LANGUAGE is a third use which Nature subserves to man. Nature is the vehicle, and threefold degree.

me; and which, as they have always been in the world, and perhaps reappear to every bard, may be both history and prophecy. 'The foundations

Every scripture is to be interpreted by the same spirit which gave it forth,—is the fundamental law of criticism.

You are getting the benefit of all the work you've ever done up until now, which has put you in the place where you're reading this bizarre book about a peculiar topic that most of the population couldn't care less about.

of it. I felt that the theories I was teaching in psychology didn't make it, that the psychologists didn't really have a grasp of the human condition, and that the theories I was teaching, which

Though Peter claimed not to be spiritual, he had found a peaceful place, as I had decades ago, in Quaker meeting

Rud' means misery and 'dravayati' means to root out. Rudra is the destroyer of our misery.

trees that fringe Kurukshetra: for the night's feasting. All the talk in both camps is of Bheeshma. In the Pandava

personal expression … book lacks the disciplines of semiology

This suspicion [selling out] often rubs up against another tendency in Black America: the habit of celebrating any promotion by a fellow Black as a sign of collective advancement.

Fiction is not the opposite of truth—indeed, it is sometimes the most persuasive vehicle for it.

Nothing can make that man truly miserable that hath God for his portion, nor nothing can make that man truly happy that [lacks] God for his portion. God is the author of all true happiness; he is the donor of all true happiness; he is the maintainer of all true happiness, and he is the centre of all true happiness. . . . He that hath him for his God, for his portion, is the only happy man in the world.

When will we learn that God doesn't give us greater wealth to increase our standard of living, but to increase our standard of giving?

The fear of God is a profound respect for His holiness, which includes a fear of the consequences of disobeying Him.