It is a sign of the times, and not a very good sign, that these days it is necessary - and not only necessary but urgent - to interest minds in the f….

There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one..

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content..

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false..

If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order..

To penetrate one's being, one must go armed to the teeth..

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking..

From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior aspects of li….

Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing..

His heart is a desert island.... The whole scope, the whole energy of his mind surround and protect him; his depths isolate him and guard him against….

Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives..

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an or….

Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever..

The "determinist" swears that if we knew everything we should also be able to deduce and foretell the conduct of every man in every circumstance, and….

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone..

Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves,….

Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit..

History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenn….

To hit someone means to adopt his point of view..

The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices.

Poems are never finished - just abandoned.