My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates.

a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.

I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.

You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture.