The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Throughout the centuries man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

It is finally a word is untimely in three different senses and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.

I'm proud that today at 43 years old I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune while character comes from within.

But the gravest difficulty and perhaps the most important in poetry meant solely for recitation is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration or rather obliterates all consideration.