An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next.

Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.