A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.