I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.

Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleance me in the great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

Disobedience is man's original virtue.

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.