Companion Quote by Burton Watson

Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.

— Henry David Thoreau

A Man Who Is Filled With Love Is in Heaven.

— Varsha Sharma

Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.

— Michel de Montaigne

All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.

— Woody Allen

I take it that 'gentleman' is a term that only describes a person in his relation to others; but when we speak of him…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or…

— Oswald Chambers

The true man of the past waited upon Heaven when dealing with people and did not wait upon people when dealing with Heaven.

— Zhuangzi

Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

— Hilaire Belloc

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.

— William Blake

Heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed, that man should ever stand in need of man.

— Theocritus

Each man dreams his own heaven.

— John Connolly