to tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country

Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.

Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, "Never keep your mind aler.

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

False hope is clung to with all one's might and main, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and it forcibly breaks through its bonds and departs. After that comes the misery of awakening, and then once again the longing to get back into the maze of the same mistakes.