If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world would understand, though they might not appreciate. The perfectly popular style is the perfectly scientific one. To me an obscurity is a reason for suspecting a fallacy.

Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.

Do today's duty, fight to-day's temptation; and do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things which you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?

Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.