“Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance".”

“The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.”

“They had thought him such a 'good' man. They should have learned it was dangerous to trust appearances or take strangers at their word in this shit-hole world.”

“A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words.”

“Shame to him whose cruel striking, kills for thoughts of his own liking.”

“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is living and participating. He should not be afraid of reading too much or too little. He should take his reading as he does his food or his exercise. The good reader will gravitate to the good books. He will discover from his contemporaries what is inspiring or fecundating, or merely enjoyable, in past literature. He should have the pleasure of making these discoveries on his own, in his own way. What has worth, charm, beauty, wisdom, cannot be lost or forgotten. But things can lose all value, all charm and appeal, if one is dragged to them by the scalp.”