Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation?
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.
Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.
One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.
My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it's feet first!
The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within its nets of gold
The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.
Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.