I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be earned.

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away

What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.

An intellectual hatred is the worst.