I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.