He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.

Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.