It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly.

A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another...

Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

Look if you like, but you will have to leap.

Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.