You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

Any place that we love becomes our world.

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in the summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.