Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.

Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists

Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.