Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.

I like people who can do things

A beautiful woman is a practical poet.