What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.

We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.

The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.