I have made a very rude translation of the Seven against Thebes, and Pindar too I have looked at, and wish he was better worth translating. I believe even the best things are not equal to their fame. Perhaps it would be better to translate fame itself,--or is not that what the poets themselves do? However, I have not done with Pindar yet.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.

The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.

The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would have each one be very careful to find out and preserve his own way.