The stillness of October gold Went out like beauty from a face.
A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on.
To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
Integrity doesn't come in degrees: low, medium, or high. You either have integrity or you don't.