Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys.