The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.
Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.
Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.
If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
I wish I were braver, although I try.
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
Better never begin than never make an end.
Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title.
The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
