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Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults- yet faults tear away the perfection in you.

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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

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Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.

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I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there

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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

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He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

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There are no hopeless situations; There are only people who have grown hopeless about them.

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Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.

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A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

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A poem is no place for an idea.

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