It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.

I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.

Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not.

But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.