Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it.

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

The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.

Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.

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

Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and the power, the purity and height of his utterance may not seldom be the greater because experience here uses the voices of desire.

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