Occupation: Poet Birth: April 16, 1844 Death: October 12, 1924
In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite..
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we c….
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest..
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditu….
We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that the Earth was the centre of the Universe, a….
Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain o….
Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it..
So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable t….
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture..
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be..
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest..
A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid..
Change is the essence of life..
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what ….
It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg..
It's not by amusing oneself that one learns..
In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing..
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order..
A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order..
America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments..
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to m….