Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.

It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.

All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.

Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.