He was not talking with US, but with his IMAGE of us.

He was one of those young men who possess an impressive store of facts, but no truths.

The author explains that some find recourse from injustice in literature and art but that these tend to deepen sensitivity to injustice rather than dull it.

If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.

It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me.

Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty

In the context of today, this WAS heroism.

We fill too many gutters while we argue unimportant points and confuse issues.

A law is not good merely because the legislature wills it, but the legislature has the mortal duty to will only that which is good.

He showed me the lowest. I had to surmise the highest.

All the courtesies in the world do not cover up the one vital and massive discourtesy.

Love is not perfection. Love is when two imperfect people choose not to give up on each other.

The avant-garde is now an arrière-garde.

In life your rewards come from the gifts you give to others.

If the people you talk to on a daily basis are not the ones living your life dealing with your daily obstacles, are not uplifting for your well being then why should you buy into their opinion?

No man can see himself unless he borrows the eyes of a friend

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?

Unless you choose to take action on what you want, nothing is ever going to come out of it.

When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.

Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges.

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.