The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems

The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures

When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.