The harbor will not save the ship from rot.

Betrayals come in various shapes and sizes but to betray someone's dream is the unforgivable one

I suggest you work on a scale with which you are comfortable, otherwise you run the risk of losing touch with your intuition

But what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that? Of giving it a name, ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country? Is it hate of one's un-country?

The land [Earth] is heavily taxed to subsidize an affluence that consists, in reality, of health and goods stolen from the unborn.

The true remedy for mistakes is to keep from making them. It is not in the piece-meal technological solutions that our society now offers.

Only the poet remains faithful, with his heart shattered in his breast

The Indians then, who had the wisdom and the grace to live in this country for perhaps 10,000 years without destroying or damaging any of it, needed for their travels no more than a footpath

The idea was that when faced with abundance one should consume abundantly: an idea that has survived to become the basis of our present economy. It is neither natural nor civilized, and even from a practical point of view it is to the last degree brutalizing and stupid.

He who has a hundred miles to walk should reckon ninety as halfway

In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro” I sought rest in everything, and found it nowhere except in a corner with a book.

I have seen many a wicked man swim in prosperity

There is no object more deserving of pity than the married bachelor

The three great evils "boredom, vice, and poverty" -have just enough to not have any of those

Be the sun and all shall see you

Death is a little prod in the back of your awareness which asks if you're hiding from life. Death is a little voice that wonders why you are spending this life wishing you were in a fantasy.

...science the sharpener of his sword versus science the searchlight on his universe?

...was trying to discern how long ago the luckless farmer found out "that the sand plains were meant to grow solitude, not corn"

Is education a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth?

I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are 40 freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

A committee is an animal with four back legs

Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep: and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.

Like all power seekers Pae was amazingly short sighted. There was a trivial, abortive quality to his mind. It lacked depth, affect, imagination. It was in fact a primitive instrument yet its potentiality had been real

You are young, Athos, and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves in to sweet remembrances

...taking us for heroes or madmen, two classes of imbeciles greatly resembling each other...

A delayed [project] is eventually good, but a rushed [project] is bad forever

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity

I could see simultaneously the boy I was and the old man I will be

He was in the world but not of it

Too much possibility leads to the madhouse

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite. For man has closed himself up till he sees all things through the narrow chinks of his cavern.

It is with them as it is with all men: in certain matters they are wise, and in others most foolish

Though the heart may be clear of offence, how is the stranger to know that? He is more likely to search through truth with a dagger

"One cloud feels lonely" (and will quickly be followed by others)

Love the animals, God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it. Don't harass them. Don't deprive them of their happiness. Don't work against God's intent.

Time had altered her since I last beheld her; it had endowed her with loveliness surpassing the beauty of her childish years

Water shares the good and bad qualities of the strata through which it flows

Here lies a Great and Mighty King, Whose Promise none rely'd on, He never said a Foolish thing Nor ever did a Wise one.

The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of dusty maxims.

The bear knows seven songs but they are all about honey

Art is about making sure you are doing more than surviving

With the exception of man all things are immortal because they know nothing of death

It was as though he offered me the sea

We should not complain of life, the door of the prison is open

There are events that cannot be held to ordinary measures of time

All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.

Could it think the heart would stop beating.