“I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”

False hope is nicer than no hope at all.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.

Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.

Stability can only be attained by inactive matter.

We are confident that we will continue to play an active role in national affairs without disappointing everyone’s expectations.

I think what is meant by animal spirits is to be pro-active on all things that you do.

Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

There’s nothing wrong with a little agitation for what’s right or what’s fair.

Be active! Take on responsibility! Work for the things you believe in. If you do not, you are surrendering your fate to others.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.