For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where my brothers bow, there will I bow too; For no form of a god, and no fashion Man has made in his desperate passion, But is worthy some worship of mine; Not too hot with a gross belief, Nor yet too cold with pride, I will bow me down where my brothers bow, Humble, but open eyed.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.