The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
This is your time and it feels normal to you but really there is no normal. There’s only change, and resistance to it and then more change.
He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think – yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.
Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
Man is God’s highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth.
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep,Who dare while others flyThey build a nations pillars deepAnd lift them to the sky.
If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.
There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.
Syllables govern the world.
Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people
