We are always getting ready to live but never living.

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread

Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.

But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?

Nature hates calculators.