The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came. - Christopher Morley

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Do you know why people are reading more books now than ever before? Because the terrific catastrophe of the war has made them realize that their minds are ill. The world was suffering from all sorts of mental fevers and aches and disorders, and never knew it. Now our mental pangs are only too manifest. We are all reading, hungrily, hastily, trying to find out — after the trouble is over — what was the matter with our minds.

There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.