Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.

The temple is holy because it is not for sale.

Technique is the test of sincerity.