Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.

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.

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may die in an hour of a single unwise word.

Love is cruel as the grave.

Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as they appear. My heroes and heroines I want not extreme types, all good or all bad; but human, mortal--partly good, partly bad. Realism I need. Pure mental abstractions have no significance for me.