Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

Disobedience is man's original virtue.

When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.