The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.

We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love.

Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

There are men that are birds, and their raiment is trembling feathers, for they show their souls to everyone and everything that is ungentle or untutored or evil or mockery is as a rude stone cast at them, and they suffer all day long, or as Paul remarks they are slain every moment.

What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.