a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of children . . . the blindness of the unpitiful - these were my terrors. But not the crash of thunder overhead, not the bolts of fire from the clouds.

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.