Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?

the world has been fair cruel if you've never known the love of a dog!

Anger is a better weapon than tears; a burr commands more respect than a sensitive plant.

I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.

Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

Nothing in the world was ever built without a dream at the beginning.

The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.