All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Doing well is a result of doing good.

God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.