Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

The Elven Way passes beyond the fields of the known into the forest of the unknown, illuminated by the glow of the elves.

My morning routine is quite common: I have breakfast at home while reading the newspaper, I take a shower, get dressed, a spray of cologne, and I am ready to go!

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.

I followed Taylor everywhere. I was always trying to catch up after him or go with him.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.

I love working with kids; I find hope in them.

Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.