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

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

You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas.

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.

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

Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance? Not to know him would argue one's self untaught in the chief glories of his language.

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