Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.