These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions; and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds.

A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.