“Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.”

“In the East, fames are won.In the west, deeds are done. ”

“Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.”

“Whatever limits us,we call Fate”

“The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.”

“It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form.”

“We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.”