Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.

Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.