I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits. You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.

It will always be found that one flourishing institution exists and battens on another mouldering one. The Present itself is parasitic to this extent.

The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves.

The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely.