A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.