Coventry Patmore

"The Catholic Church itself has been nearly killed by the infection of the puritanism of the Reformation."

"Good people and religious are the first to say, "He hath a devil" of any one whose way is widely different from and maybe greatly higher than their own."

"Nothingness is capacity, and night the opportunity of light."

"The dull and heavy hate of fools."

"The cloud that is light to Israel is darkness to Egypt."

"As the Word of God is God's image, so the word of man is his image, and "a man is known by his speech.""

"He is irrational, however well he may be able to reason, who does not clearly see that good is good and truth truth."

"Holy indignation is a proof that we should do the same thing ourselves, and easy tears are a certain sign of a hard heart."

"Nothing remains with man unless it is insinuated with some delight."

"The enthusiasm for goodness which shows that it is not the habit of the mind."

"Enough's a surfeit to the soul."

"Life's warp of Heaven and woof of Hell."

"Modern Philosophers, that wisely keep to sandy shallows, like shrimps, for fear of bigger fish."

"The proper study of mankind is woman."

"Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century."