“We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.”

“The earth has its music for those who will listen.”

“The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.”

“Consciousness is a born hermit.”

“In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.”

“The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.”

“Wisdom comes by disillusionment.”

“Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.”

“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.”

“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.”

“The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.”