Only poetry inspires poetry.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
If you shoot at a king you must kill him.
If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
Esther liked books out where everyone could see them, a sort of graphic index to the intricate labyrinth of her mind arrayed to impress the most casual guest, a system of immediate introduction which she had found to obtain in a number of grimy intellectual households in Greenwich Village.
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
You don’t learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
