History is the new poetry.
It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.
Affectation is the product of falsehood.
Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.
Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.