The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.

The only object of liberty is life.

If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.