Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.

As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.

Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.

No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.