You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.

These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

Reform is born of need, not pity.

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

A happiness trick:do more things that make you happy, and you'll be happy more often.

Equality has no place for genius.

A hole is nothing at all but you can break your neck in it.

I want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that's the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy of becoming a teacher one day.

Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods.

Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits.

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.

What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?

I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.

There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.