Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.

A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand to lead them to that world.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that our Earth has fashioned itself, from its chaos of substances and powers, through the animating warmth of the creative spirit, to a peculiar and original whole, by a series of preparatory revolutions, till at last the crown of its creation, the exquisite and tender creature man, was enabled to appear.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing

Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.