Poetry therefore we will call Musical Thought.
One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
He that can work is a born king of something.
His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps.
The greatest of faults I should say is to be conscious of none.
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them...
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew.
Every noble crown is and on Earth will forever be a crown of thorns.
Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.