Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.

One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have once come to light; but the image of art, that infinite variable of perception and expression in the individual, - that is not easily re-created, at least, not with certainty and in its original fulness.

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

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

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

To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.