Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

A poem is something sacred. Let no one Take it for anything except itself.

To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.