Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.

The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.

And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.

After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.

To love makes one solitary.