When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

Superior people never make long visits.

The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.