It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods.

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.