My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting.

With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes.

A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected.

[Death:] The one inexorable thing!

Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

High above hate I dwell, O storms! farewell.

The fears of what may come to pass, I cast them all away, Among the clover scented grass, Among the new-mown hay.

Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.

Character demonstrates itself in trifles.

I am not in the least given to any violent interest in womankind, however, such as has addled the country's brains of late. Give me a manandwoman world: 'tis good enough!

Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.

You won't rise to the occasion - you'll default to your level of training.

True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul.

I was a young troubadour when I rode in on a song. And, I'll be an old troubadour when I'm gone.

One drop of eternity is of greater weight than a vast ocean of finite things.

I advocate for protecting the liberty of the net, and securing privacy. I argue against people who believe both are somehow given automatically. They're not.

Very great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care.

You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from.

I guess it wasn't everyday they see a yellow lifeboat with no engine going a hundred knots an hour, manned by three kids.

There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.