Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?