The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.
The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.
Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.