Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts, you must frequent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer's home. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.