Dancing With the Universe: William Lawes (1602-1645)

Great Quotations

"I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole, I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology...And I think we should remember that we are part of a great whole, which for convenience we call Nature." Kenneth Clark
"The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet no man regards it. It is a region of Light and Peace, did not man disquiet it. It is the Paradise of God." --Thomas Traherne
"By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls." --John Galsworthy
"There's a Divinity shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will." --Shakespeare
"Whenever I get a little money I buy books. And if any is left over I buy food and clothes." -- Erasmus
I am a human being, and regard nothing human as foreign to me." -- Terence