The world is crammed with delightful things

Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.

every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works, yet we require critics to explain the one and biographers to expound the other. That time hangs heavy on people's hands is the only explanation of the monstrous growth.

Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.