One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.