Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.

Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.

Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.

Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.