A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

Others can get in your way temporarily, but only you can get out of your way permanently. Our best thoughts come from others.

Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.