In dreams begins responsibility.
— William Butler Yeats
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
