I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind.
What soilders whey-face? The English for so please you. Take thy face hence.
The Eyes are the window to your soul
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
There are three people in yourself - who people think you are, who you think you are, and who you really are.
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.
A true master gives all his knowledge. But only when the student is ready.
It is not speech or tool making that distinguishes us from other animals, it is imagination. . . . Of what use are speech sounds and tools without an inspiration toward perfectibility, without a sense that we can create or construct a history.
I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.