Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think.

Get Ready, Get Ready!

It is presumable that no country will be able to borrow of foreigners upon better terms than the United States, because none can, perhaps, afford so good security.

Step by step, we will break this cycle of silence, poor information and stigma.

The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.

We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.

All that matters on the stage is good art.

People who parade their holiness are operating dangerously close to the sin of pride.

Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

The stupid thing about anger is how people hurt you and then you let them keep hurting you by being angry about how they originally hurt you. It’s a vicious cycle.