“ Let each become all that he was created capable of being. ”
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
~ Thomas Carlyle
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything
Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
