"This poem will never reach its destination...." - Quote by Voltaire

“Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.”

“The perfect is the enemy of the good.”

“Learn to cultivate your own garden.”

“Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.”

“Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.”

“Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.”

“Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.”

“...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.”

“Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.”