Principles without programs are platitudes.

Like fingerprints, all marriages are different.

Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.