What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.

A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.

Mastery passes often for egotism.