We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread