All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting-place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow big; Here is store and overplus - More had not Alcinous!

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

Love comes unseen; we only see it go.

All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,-- The coin, Tiberius.

Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.

Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;- All things, in short, to which belong The charm, the grace that Time makes strong, All these I prize, but (entre nous) Old friends are best!

He is a Patron who looks down, / With careless eyes on men who drown; / But if they chance to reach the land, / Encumbers them with helping hand

In merest prudence men should teach . . . That science ranks as monstrous things Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings-- E'en Angel's wings!--are fictions.

Time goes you say? Ah no! Alas Time stays we go.

Love comes unseen we only see it go.

What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!

Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).

Anger has strength, hate has might, but love has power.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way.

I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead of the government.

To work on behalf of the wild is to restore culture

Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

People in obedience to the Lord do not worry, do not fret, do not need to know all of the outcomes before they are willing to commit themselves.

Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.