Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.

If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.

Great passions are incurable diseases.

Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.

You can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days.

Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.