Monday, February 16, 2009

With quiet eyes...

"Who loves the rain,
And loves his home,
And looks on life with quiet eyes,
Him will I follow through the storm,
And at his hearth-fire keep me warm:
Nor hell nor heaven shall that soul surprise
Who loves the rain,
And loves his home,
And looks on life with quiet eyes."

--Frances Shaw

Where...

"A crowd is not company, faces are just a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love."

--Sir Francis Bacon

Friend

"Of all the heavenly treasures that mortal men commend,
what trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend?"

--Victor Hugo

Wings

"The two wings of our souls, immune to any gust of wind, are true love and faith."

--Stanislas Xavier-Touchet