it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

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

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

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.

As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs. And he clothes them with thunders and beauty, He clothes them with music and fire, Seeing not, as he bows by their altars, That he worships his own desire.

That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.