The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.