That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Freedom lies in being bold.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.