Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.

If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.

Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.