Only poetry inspires poetry.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.
The years teach much what the days never knew.
There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.
Get a black suit and just freeload, problem it’s too God damned late now even to be any of the things I never wanted to be.
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
Don’t be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don’t bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Don’t waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
Very few people can afford to be poor.
It is a happy talent to know how to play.
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
I trust no one, not even myself.
