“Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!”

“I'm fairly fond of boys, but my preference is for girls; When I have enough of a girl, she serves me still as a boy.”

“Nothing higher can be accomplished by the epic poet thus interpreting his own time in order to serve the future.(Foreword by Frederick Ungar in Elective Affinities, 1962, Ungar Publishing)”

“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.”

“It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.”

“There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few priveledged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.”

“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”