The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.

Life is a solitude.

The way to do much in a short time is to love much. People will do great things if they are stirred with enthusiasm and love.

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

The less event and action there is in a scene the more I can enter into it.

Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.