Quotes Thomas Traherne

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything ma...

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious ap...

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been ...

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore...

I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of...

Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whol...

Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our lo...

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or di...

This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space al...

This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and hi...

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable...

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of m...

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself flowet...

You never know yourself till you know more than your body....

Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morni...