The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.