Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.