A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.

Friends are born not made.

During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.

The gothic is singular in this one seems easily at home in the renaissance one is not too strange in the Byzantine as for the Roman it is ourselves and we could walk blindfolded through every chink and cranny of the Greek mind all these styles seem modern when we come close to them but the gothic gets away.

At best Madrid is a hole, but in rainy weather it is a place fit only to drown rats in.

If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.

Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stop.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.

I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.

War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.

The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

There are tons of people I'd like to freeze for all of eternity, but we won't go into that!

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.

So this is it. Match point for eternity.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.