Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. It is even a trivial place. The waves forever rolling to the land are too far-travelled and untamable to be familiar. Creeping along the endless beach amid the sun-squall and the foam, it occurs to us that we, too, are the product of sea-slime.

New earths, new themes expect us.

Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness.

Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.

Music never stops; it is only the listening that is intermittent.