I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.