Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
Civilization sails prettily like a child’s rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.
Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in the morass.
The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.
If the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon’s.
A small poet repeats himself like a clock.
The only real change in life comes with the consciousness of old age.
It is yesterday that makes tomorrow so sad.
Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.
Our lives are waves that come up out of the ocean of eternity, break upon the beach of earth, and lapse back to the ocean of eternity. Some are sunlit, some run in storm and rain; one is a quiet ripple, another is a thunderous breaker; and once in many centuries comes a great tidal wave that sweeps over a continent; but all go back to the sea and lie equally level there.
Wealth is a tide which flows into one place by ebbing from another.
