1. “Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.”
2. “Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.”
3. “The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion .”
4. “To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.”
5. “The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light,
6. “Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.”
7. “No individual life can be truly prosperous, passed… in the midst of men who suffer.”
8. “Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things.”
9. “We mortal millions live alone.”
10. “Greatness is spiritual condition.”
11. “Culture is to know the best that has been said an thought in the world.”
12. “The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.”
13. “Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.”
14. “Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming.”
15. “The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next .”
16. “.Journalism is literature in a hurry”
17. “The difficulty for democracy is, how to find and keep high ideals.”
18. “Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he who finds himself loses his misery.”
19. “Everything in our political life tends to hide form us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.”
20. “All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.”
21. “The fewer there are who follow the way to perfection, the harder that way is to find.”
22. “Art still has truth. Take refuge there.”
23. “Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.”
24. “For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.”
25. “Genius is mainly an affair of energy.”
26. “The eternal not ourselves makes for righteousness.”
27. “Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.”
28. “For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things see to fulfill the law of their being.”
29. “In mystery our soul abides.”
30. “Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind.”
