We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

Flowers are the earth laughing.

You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself

My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.

In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,--no more. I cannot get it nearer to me.

The people are to be taken in very small doses.