fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

If the world were not so full of people, and most of them did not have to work so hard, there would be more time for them to get out and lie on the grass, and there would be more grass for them to lie on.

The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.

Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.