The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
I have wasted my hours.
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.
