To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.