The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
Every word was once a poem.
There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet