“None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.”

“None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.”

“It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is to be educated."[Saturday Evening Post, September 27, 1958]”

“For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.”

“We hold there is no worse enemy to a state than he who keeps the law in his own hands.”

“He drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek and make Hell grant what Love did seek. ”

“He was there beside her; yet she was far away from him, alone with her outraged love and her ruined life.”