It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.
There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.
In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.