We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.

The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.