To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your
Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were
Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire.
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.