We are older by faith than by experience.

Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.

The world laughs in flowers.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.