There are so many things that we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.

The past is never where you think you left it.

All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate.

Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.

God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.

I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind -- indeed, it gives clearness without sharpness, and surely that is the best light in which to look at anything.

No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.