The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.
The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.