“England looked strange to us returned soldiers. We could not understand the war-madness that ran wild everywhere, looking for a pseudo-military outlet. The civilians talked a foreign language. I fo...”

“Theres no money in poetry, but theres no poetry in money, either”

“To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about going one's own way, than ever before.”

“There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money.”

“About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentlemans education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.”

“Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.”

“Most menit is my experienceare neither virtuous nor scoundrels, good-hearted nor bad-hearted. They are a little of one thing and a little of the other and nothing for any length of time: ignoble me...”

“Clearly it's not all that pacific on the Pacific Ocean”

“This (San Francisco) is the most beautiful city in America, Probably because it looks nothing like America”

“Tis open before your eyes," returned the scout; "and he who knows it is not a niggard of its use. I have heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I ...”

“But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.”