Wisdom

I can study, play, or sleep in a tempest.

I am in England everywhere, and under any meridian.

I cannot fall out, or contemn a man for an errour, or conceive why a difference in Opinion should divide an affection.

For then Reason, like a bad Hound, spends upon a false Scent, and forsakes the question first started.

God, who truly knows me, knows that I am nothing.

To be a kind of nothing for a moment.

It is ever the case with men in high places who are before the eye of the public: tempests arise unexpectedly, the existence of which is not suspected by the victim till they burst over his head.

They may be compared with waterspouts, and they pour down on the poet, be he a Schiller or a Dante, an Ovid or a Byron, utterly overwhelming him, rending his heart and body, tearing down his fame, overturning his reputation, uprooting his honour.

Still thou wouldst love me, still that more than life retain.

My heart is worth more than that of a vile mortal who dwells in your towns.

What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea.

Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings.

The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.

It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.

It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core....

And because you not always can keep your eyes shut there comes the real trouble—the heart pain—the world pain.

It is not good for you to find you cannot make your dream come true, for the reason that you not strong enough are, or not clever enough.

The way is to the destructive element submit yourself, and with the exertions of your hands and feet in the water make the deep, deep sea keep you up.

Philosophers have explained space. They have not explained time.

The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.