I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.

That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech