I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods.

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

Liberty is a slow fruit.

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity

It is defeat which educates us.