The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Let not your heart be offended with anyone… Beware! Beware! lest ye offend any heart.

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.