Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share
If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are;… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share
The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share
Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth. — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share
Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew. — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share
All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake. — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share
Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share
"The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good;" and without claiming for an instant that title of good for my book, I do… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share
We speak of persons as jovial, as being born under the planet Jupiter or Jove, which was the joyfullest star and the happiest augury… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share
None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share
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 Copy Share
