"I had as many ideas as I have now, only I did not know how to choose from among them those that belonged to my life."

"When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given…"

"It is not true that youth looks before it with the mechanical gaze of a well-drilled soldier. Its quarrel is not with…"

"I began to pray that my imagination might somehow be rescued from abstraction and become as preoccupied with life as …"

"We begin to live when we have conceived life as tragedy."

"Only the greatest obstacle that can be contemplated without despair rouses the will to full intensity."

"We saw each other in the light of bitter comedy, and in the arts, where now one technical element reigned and then an…"

"Politics, for a vision-seeking man, can be but half achievement, a choice of an almost easy kind of skill instead of …"

"As I look backward upon my own writing, I take pleasure alone in those verses where it seems to me I have found somet…"

"The pride and reserve, the sense of decorum and order, the instinctive playing before themselves that belongs to thos…"