“It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.”

“For the poet, the imagination is paramount, and... he dwells apart in his imagination, as the philosopher dwells in his reason, and as the priest dwells in his belief … The imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.”

“It is possible for every man to go deep within and saturate his conscious mind with inner happiness with that unlimited intelligence that dwells at the source of thought.”

“Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.”

“The value of a mind is measured by the nature of the objects it habitually contemplates. They whose thoughts are of trifles are trifling: they who dwell with what is eternally true, good and fair, are like unto God.”

“The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.”

“God appears and god is light
To those poor souls who dwell in night
But does a human form display
To those who dwell in realms of day”

“The world is narrow, broad the mind—
Thoughts dwell easily side by side
Things collide violently in space”

“Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future.”

“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”