“Then should some man of worth appear
Whose stainless virtue all revere,
They hush, they list: his clear voice rules
Their rebel wills, their anger cools.”

“If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.”

“No man should have another man's voice in his head.”

“Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world, — as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.”

“Clear and cool, clear and cool,
By laughing shallow, and dreaming pool.”

“I could give you a list a mile long of the homosexuals in the arts but there's no point in making a big tzimis about a relatively harmless and cool state of affairs — Each man to his own tastes.”

“Imagination should
A reconciler, not a rebel, be,
To teach the heart of man to apprehend
Nature's vicissitudes, and bear his own,
With sympathetic fancy.”

“The winning of honor, is but the revealing of a man's virtue and worth, without disadvantage.”

“Any journalist worth his salt, should have to study literature to some extent.”

“He’s not the first man I'd like to kill down here, but I was willing to work him onto the list.”