Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.

Me volví loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil.

Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.

For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.