The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent, and my word as good as my bond, and to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe. This reality is the foundation of friendship, religion, poetry, and art.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.

The world is his who has money to go over it.