I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.

We do not live by justice, but by grace.

I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints.

The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.