The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.

If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.

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

Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.

It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.