The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.

A man should carry nature in his head.