These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.

That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.

For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.