The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
I travel a lot, but I don't come away with new inspiration.
William Blake: I... smell... beans...
I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
We didn't have money for toys, so I made my own.
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.
I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.
Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
Need is not quite belief.
But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions.
By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.
