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

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.

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

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.