In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.