Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

And none will hear the postman’s knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

To be free is often to be lonely.

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.