Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

Coquetry is the champagne of love.

There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn.

Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out.

Our stories hold unique inspiration for one another.

Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must strictly speaking at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!

The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas.

I thought I would spend the rest of my life searching for little reminders of you.

Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.

If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.