We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.

O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

Everything is beautiful in its own way. Exuberance is beauty.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.