In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this period, he was a bad man. Then he became good, abandoned his daughter, adopted correct principles and wrote bad poetry.

Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.

One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of style, or there is just one of it where there should be two