You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week I'll do something. If not I won't do a damn thing.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth will proceed by loving...
Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised...
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart...
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the...
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose...
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die...
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have...
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union...
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the...
Exclusively of the abstract sciences the largest and worthiest portion of...
Talent lying in the understanding is often inherited genius being the...
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely...
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow and so borrow as to...
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little soon...
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the...
Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies...
Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy or...
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic...
In politics what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate...
As I live and am a man this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the...
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no...
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
