The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.