Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.

For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.