The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives

Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.

What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.

The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.

I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.