The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day; The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.

Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.

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

The living can assist the imagination of the dead.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.