They fail and they alone who have not striven.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

Anything creative requires a bit of acting, and filling in blanks with imagination.

There is no cure for ambition other than success.

Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ.

It is wealth to be content.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.

Life is short and progress is slow

I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.