Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.

I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.

There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.

The poetry of speech.

A quiet conscience makes one so serene.