And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.

Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones.

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you.

My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws. They carry strange customs with them and demand room for bold and audacious action. The future speaks ruthlessly through them. They change the world.