If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.

Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.

It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.

The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.

The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.

The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.