Age Quote by William Mathews

One lamp — thy mother’s love — amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through…

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

“If only mankind could hold its own fertility in awe, which is one and the same whether it manifests itself in the spirit or…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Observe yon tree in your neighbour's garden. Look how it grows up, crooked and distorted. Some wind scattered the germ from which it sprang,…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“And though it be not so in the physical, yet in moral science that which cannot be understood is not always profitless. For the…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Life comes from light: if we are under God’s shining light, life will be generated and the divine life will grow in us.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The spirit of light gives birth to the soul of love.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be?

— Paolo Bacigalupi

Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in thee and…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Nature is transcendental, exists primarily, necessarily, ever works and advances, yet takes no thought for the morrow.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

— Francis Bacon

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

— Henry Adams

Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death,…

— Lucretius