There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
His modesty amounts to deformity.
Your personal nature seeks its paradise.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
