Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.

The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay ... More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us.

We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind things true, things elevated, things just, things pure, things amiable, things of good report; having these in mind, studying and loving these, is what saves states.