Quotes · page 1607

There are two classes of poets — the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

We are delighted to find a person who values us as we value ourselves, and distinguishes us from the rest of mankind, with an attention not unlike that with which we distinguish ourselves.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

There is no health; physicians say, that we At best enjoy but a neutrality.

It is so horrible, I dare at times imagine to my need Some future state revealed to us by Zeus

More than a century has passed since science laid down sound propositions as to the origins of the universe, but how many have mastered them or possess the really scientific spirit of criticism?

I looked at the jail that secluded me from men and it was no longer by its high walls that I was imprisoned; no, it was Vasudeva who surrounded me.

What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise?

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

O gracious God! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of poesy!

They will then command the respect of both races; whereas now they only shock the taste of the one, and provoke the disgust of the other.

Before undergoing a surgical operation arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.

The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.

How you produce volume after volume the way you do is more than I can conceive. ...But you haven't to forge every sentence in the teeth of irreducible and stubborn facts as I do. It is like walking through the densest brush wood.

I should not advise anyone with ordinary independence of mind to attempt the public ear unless he is confident that he can out-lung and out-last his own generation; for if he has any force, people will and ought to be on their guard …

This, Mr. Emmot, is a war Budget. It is for raising money to wage implacable warfare against poverty and squalidness.

True superstition is ignorant honesty & this is beloved of god and man.

Where have my ravish'd senses been! What joys, what wonders, have I seen!

The lone couch of his everlasting sleep.

The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.

Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.

At length I saw a lady within call, Stiller than chisell'd marble, standing there; A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength. Teach men of strength that is already within them.