A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

There was once a Hindu sage, who sat down on the banks of the Ganges and thought for seventy years about the millennium. Just as he arrived at the solution and was putting it into verse, a mosquito stung him and he forgot it again at once.