What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?

Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.

The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of

It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.

The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

It's a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!