Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.
America is a young country with an old mentality.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.