reflection Quotes

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.