To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.