The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not "Devil's wine," but God's wine.

The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.

Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.