The Green Helmet and Other Poems, 1910. No Second Troy

On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays

On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human

On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays