Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

Theirs two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody.Or die trying

I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.

anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did.

I've never been one to look too far ahead since I came back into the England side and I'm not going to change that view.

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

I think my brain is much more intelligent than I am...so I tend to trust it.

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

I grew up in New York.