Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioning ability of man to evaluate his life by a conscious endeavor

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.