Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.

We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

A man often pays dear for a small frugality.

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.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Calmness is always godlike.