There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
People were so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's were transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything,...
We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.
The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the conti...
Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.
One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.
It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.
Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends in this way to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as...
A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement much disputation and yet more personal liking.
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
On the other hand, she was disproportionately indulgent towards the failings of men, and was often heard to say that these were natural.
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
You are a poem--and that is to be the best part of a poet--what makes up thepoet’s consciousness in his best moods.