We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.

People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals.

Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.

For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.