A man is known by the company his mind keeps. |
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. |
Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant |
I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings. |
I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings. |
My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings, And yet recalls the very hour 'Twas noon by yonder village tower, And on the last blue noon in May The wind came briskly up this way, Crisping the brook beside the road; Then, |
No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original |
The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. |
The ocean moans over dead men's bones. |
There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child. |
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven |
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age |
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation |
What is lovely never dies, put passes into other loveliness. |