To be beloved is all I need,
And whom I love, I love indeed.
first publ 1816
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.
He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
No man does anything from a single motive.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.
For works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
On Pilgrim's Progress. Source text.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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