Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages’ way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant se….

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists..

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May….

Night conceals a world but reveals a universe..

Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!.

Might she have loved me? just as well She might have hated, who can tell!.

For I say this is death and the sole death,- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of….

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist..

Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart t….

I do what many dream of, all their lives.

Ah, love, - you are my unutterable blessing.....I am in full sunshine now..

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not..

Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also..

A man in armor is his armor's slave..

They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store..

Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!.

A pretty woman's worth some pains to see..

A minute's success pays the failure of years..

Sorrow, the heart must bear, Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there. Many a circumstance, at least, Touches the very breast. For those Whom any ….

"With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart" once more! Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare he!.

T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft..