When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.