Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

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.

In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.