There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Writing is an undertaking for the modest.

the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.