On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.

The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present.

Love your life, poor as it is.

Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.

The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics.

Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.

Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.