62 Quotes by Thomas Traherne

The sense itself was I. I felt no dross or matter in my soul, no brims or borders, such as in a bowl we see. My essence was capacity.

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.

You are as prone to love as the sun is to shine; it being the most delightful and natural employment of the soul of humans.

Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field.

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

Be sensible of your wants, that you maybe sensible of your treasures.

Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?

How like an angel came I down!

He knoweth nothing as he ought to know it, who thinketh he knoweth anything without seeing its place and the manner how it relateth to God, angels, and men, and to all the creatures in earth, heaven and hell, time and eternity.