Every old poem is sacred.
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
It’s a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
If a man’s fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
Tear thyself from delay.
He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
Principles aren’t of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
