Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

Omissions are not accidents.

The hands are the heart's messengers.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

At times all you need is a bottle of fine old wine, a mellifluous piece of music playing in the background and a good book to spend the entire night in a magical bliss!

The statue was of a young man with a tall, gaunt body and an angular face. He held his head as if he faced a challenge and found joy in his capacity to meet it.

I rarely go into a shop on holiday, because fashion and design are what I'm involved in every day. I need another world.

For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.

Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible

Fear has been the original parent of superstition, and every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of their invisible enemies.

President Obama told the Irish people that America will always stand by them, to which Israel laughed.

Don't run from lessons; they are little packages of treasure that have been given to us. As we learn from them, our lives change for the better.

Flint and its lead contaminated water are now the focus of sustained national attention including political attention.