Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

The earth has music for those who listen.

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.

To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.