I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither
He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.
The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.
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.
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.