You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed.