Life and Existence

Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity … It is a part of nature.

Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity … It is a part of nature.

Evolution … is—a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity, to a definite coherent heterogeneity.

One’s prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

One’s prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

I am putting old heads on your young shoulders … all my pupils are the crème de la crème.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man.

Crito, we owe a cock to Aesculapius; please pay it and don’t forget it.

Crito, we owe a cock to Aesculapius; please pay it and don’t forget it.

It is perfectly certain that the soul is immortal and imperishable, and our souls will actually exist in another world.

Music, when soft voices die,

How wonderful is Death,

Ere Babylon was dust,

The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.

I met a traveller from an antique land

‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!

Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!

Nought may endure but Mutability.

Nought may endure but Mutability.

When the lamp is shattered

The world’s great age begins anew,

The world’s great age begins anew,