If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.