The days are too short even for love how can there be enough time for quarreling?

The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

It is often the case with finer natures, that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age, the power of the intellect is unaltered or increased.

It is often the case with finer natures that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age the power of the intellect is unaltered or increased.

Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer being?

When you're alone is when you can count your friends.

I grow grandiose, which is a good sign I should become prosaic.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity we should not distort it.

We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.

I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.

Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.

Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.

I'm not a proper anything. Majoring in philosophy kind of turns positive assertions into maybes.