The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

Any place you love is the world to you.

The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.

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.

Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.