We live not in our moments or our years: The present we fling from us like the rind Of some sweet future, which we after find Bitter to taste.

- Richard Chenevix Trench

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.

- Richard Chenevix Trench

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightnin…

- Richard Chenevix Trench

Oh seize the instant time; you never will With water once passed by impel the mill.

- Richard Chenevix Trench

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

- Richard Chenevix Trench

If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are; If, never leaving …

- Richard Chenevix Trench

The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction?

- Richard Chenevix Trench

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.

- Richard Chenevix Trench

Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth.

- Richard Chenevix Trench