When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.

Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.

When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.

Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the palm-tree invites it to pitch the tent. Perpetually passing out of himself and his own positive circumstantial condition of being into other hearts and into other conditions, the poet obtains his knowledge of human life by transporting his own life into the lives of others.

I did not fall into love - I rose into love.

If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.