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.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

I hate to write, but I love to have written.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

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