"Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world."

"I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly."

"There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions."

"Go, and never darken my towels again."

"The National Rifle Association says, 'Guns don't kill people. People do'. But I think the gun helps."

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man."

"Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?"

"A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."

"To refrain from imitation is the best revenge."