I Am Better Than My Reputation

Live With Your Century; But Do Not Be Its Creature.

Each State Of The Human Mind Has Some Parable In The Physical Creation By Which It Is Shadowed Forth; Nor Is It Only Artists And Poets, But Even The Most Abstract Thinkers That Have Drawn From This Source. Lively Activity We Name Fire; Time Is A Stream That Rolls On, Sweeping All Before It; Eternity Is A Circle; A Mystery Is Hid In Midnight Gloom, And Truth Dwells In The Sun. Nay, I Begin To Believe That Even The Future Destiny Of The Human Race Is Prefigured In The Dark Oracular Utterances Of Bodily Creation.

O That It Might Remain Eternally Green, The Beautiful Time Of Youthful Love.

The Future Comes Slowly, The Present Flies And The Past Stands Still Forever.

To Gain A Crown By Fighting Is Great, To Reject It Divine.