Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
The whole past is the procession of the present.
It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!