Superior people never make long visits.

A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

Wolf's wool is the best of wool, / but it cannot be sheared because / the wolf will not comply.

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.