It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.

Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.