I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.

Not if I know myself at all.

The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.

The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.

While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.

Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.