Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.
I was born to travel and write verse.
It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.
Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.
Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.
The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.