It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

Laughter means sympathy.

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.