Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.

When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at least, if you don't understand them, he himself apparently understands them even less. He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground.

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.