Quotes from work

Paracelsus

“Error has no end.”

“Progress is
The law of life: man is not Man as yet.”

“Jove strikes the Titans down
Not when they set about their mountain-piling
But when another rock would crown the work.”

“The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung
To their first fault, and withered in their pride.”

“The peerless cup afloat
Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph
Swims bearing high above her head.”

“God is the perfect poet,
Who in his person acts his own creations.”

“Truth is within ourselves.”

“I see my way as birds their trackless way.
I shall arrive,—what time, what circuit first,
I ask not; but unless God send his hail
Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow,
In some time, his good time, I shall arrive:
He guides me and the bird. In his good time.”

“Be sure that God
Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.”

“Every joy is gain
And gain is gain, however small.”

“That we devote ourselves to God, is seen
In living just as though no God there were.”

“Strange secrets are let out by Death
Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.”

“Autumn wins you best by this its mute
Appeal to sympathy for its decay.”