We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

The final mystery is oneself.

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

The only thing I can't resist is temptation.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.