The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy 5 of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone, as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and setting the foundations of the earth. Ruskin.
The divine power of the love, of which we cease not to sing and speak, is this, that it reproduces every moment the grand qualities of the beloved object, perfect in the smallest parts, embraced in the whole; it rests not either by day or by night, is ravished with its own work, wonders at its own stirring activity, finds the well-known always new, because it is every moment begotten anew in the sweetest of all occupations. In fact the image of the beloved one cannot become old, for every moment is the hour of its birth. Goethe.
The divine state, "par excellence," is silence and repose. Amiel.
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind, the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. Schopenhauer.
The dog that fetches will carry. Pr.
The dog that starts the hare is as good as the 10 one that catches it. Ger. Pr.
The dog, to gain his private ends, / Went mad, and bit the man. Goldsmith.
The dome of St. Peter's is great, yet is it but a foolish chip of an egg-shell compared with that star-fretted dome where Arcturus and Orion glance for ever, which latter, notwithstanding, no one looks at—because the architect was not a man. Carlyle.
The dome of thought, the palace of the soul. Byron.
The donkey means one thing and the driver another. Pr.