Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

An opinion which excites no opposition at all is not worth having!

I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep.

the beginning of my history is - love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are only frank enough to admit it.

A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of it to places he has never seen, and surrounds him with strange circumstances of which he is merely the spiritual eyewitness.