So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.

Each moment of the year has its own beauty.

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.