Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.

Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals; - The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls.

Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your bookshelf and your task. When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you, and you shall accept that loathsomeness with joy. The moth must fly to the lamp, and you must solve those questions though you die.

I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.