A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.

The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

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

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.