When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.

Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

Insist on yourself. Never imitate.