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Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to who

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection

Don't forget to love yourself.

A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity - he is continually informing and filling some other body