Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.

You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past.

As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.

She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.

It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

Of course! the path to heavendoesn't lie down in flat miles.It's in the imaginationwith which you perceive this world, and the gestureswith which you honor it.-from The Swan

Love requires no words.

I've been ready to die since before you was Born!

The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world.

You have been mine before - How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar, your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, - I knew it all of yore.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.

He [Nomar Garciaparra] could go 0-for-10 in rehab and it wouldn't mean anything.

Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.

Tell the Earth how much you care, how beautiful she is, and how much you love her. Ask for her forgiveness for having been so careless.