'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
The only history that matters is the history we know.
A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.