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

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.

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

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

It's too late to be studying Hebrew; it's more important to understand even the slang of today.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate