To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.