All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.