He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.