The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.