Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.

The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.

The badge of honesty is simplicity.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.