The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.

Life is to be lived, not controlled.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?