The days are too short even for love, how can there ever be time for quarrelling? Mrs. Gatty.
The dead do not need us; but for ever and for evermore we need them. Garfield.
The dead letter of religion must own itself dead, and drop piecemeal into dust, if the living spirit of religion, freed from its charnel-house, is to arise on us, new born of Heaven, and with new healing under its wings. Carlyle.
The decline of literature indicates the decline 45 of the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency. Goethe.
The deeper the sorrow, the less tongue hath it. Talmud.
The deity works in the living, not in the dead; in the becoming and the changing, not in the become and the fixed. Goethe.
The delight of the destroyer and denier is no pure delight, and must soon pass away. Carlyle.
The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. Emerson.
The demonic in music stands so high that no understanding can reach it, and an influence flows from it which masters all, and for which none can account. Goethe.
The demonic is that which cannot be explained by reason or understanding, which is not in one's nature, yet to which it is subject. Goethe.