Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.