Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.