Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.
Send
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Poetry)
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
Send
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
To beautify life is to give it an object.
Send
Man is not an image engraved on a silver dollar, with covetous eyes, licking lips and a diamond pin on a silver dickey. Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
Send
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
Send
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity. It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.
Send
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.
Send
It is not the form of things that must be attended to but their spirit. The real is what matters, not the apparent. In politics, reality is that which is unseen. Politics is the art of combining a nation's diverse or opposing factors to the benefit of its domestic well-being, and of saving the country from the open enmity or covetous friendship of other nations.
Send
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life. To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.
Send
Newspapers, universities and schools should encourage the study of the country's pertinent components. To know them is sufficient, without mincing words; for whoever brushes aside even a part of the truth, whether through intention or oversight, is doomed to fall. The truth he lacks thrives on negligence, and brings down whatever is built without it. It is easy to resolve our problem knowing its components than resolve them without knowing them.
Send