Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.

People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.