Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.

I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

The book exists for us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

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