The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.
If there is one thing all Fascists and National Socialists agreed on, it was their hostility to capitalism.
Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.
That story placed man above the animals, until man's fall at Eve's hand, and linked humans to God himself, fashioned in his image. But now the black wolf was telling the girl a grave secret. That man was an animal too.
When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.