The archenemy is the arch stupid!

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this for a truth: the thing thou seekest is already here, "here or nowhere," couldst thou only see.