Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.

Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

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.

Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

Our distrust is very expensive.