you only know yourself when you go beyond your limits

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse.

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

Written By William Dean Howells