No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.

An obligation to feel can freeze feelings.

If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?

Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.

Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.