Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted.
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
Government is an evil it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.