Go not to the object; let the object come to you.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once.

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.

I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.

Like speaks to like only; labor to labor, philosophy to philosophy, criticism to criticism, poetry to poetry. Literature speaks how much still to the past, how little to the future, how much to the East, how little to the West.