Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
A poem is no place for an idea.