How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.

Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.

Seek the truth

Wherever I found a living creature there I found the will to power.

Whoever said "It's not whether you win or lose that counts " probably lost.

When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.

I had faith, and if I had faith I couldn't worry.

People like me took Donald Trump literally, but never seriously. But his supporters took him seriously and not literally.

Humankind won't find peace as long as we're treating feeling animals as if they were so many blocks of wood.

I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.