The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

You take a weakness and start making it stronger.. You don't have to build your strengths - that you already possess... It is your weakness that needs the exercise

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.