for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?

There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.

There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.

Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.

It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.

Great men always have dogs.

You know the Ark of Israel and the calf of Belial were both made of gold. Religion has never yet changed the metal of her one adoration.