Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair..

The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to ….

We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause..

A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is..

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet..

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity..

We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all..

The course of everything goes to teach us faith..

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot..

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues..

The lover of letters loves power too..

So far as a person thinks; they are free..

When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation..

He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for h….

The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible to maintain the old emphas….

When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to t….

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?.

He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering ….

Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me..

We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see….

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it..