The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

Every word was once a poem.

The street is full of humiliations to the proud.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.