Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.

No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.