We hate the kindness which we understand.

The poet will maintain serenity in spite of all disappointments. He is expected to preserve an unconcerned and healthy outlook over the world, while he lives.

The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.

My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.

This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.