None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.

Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three

The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view.