“People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.”

“Follow your inner heart and the world moves in and helps.”

“You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.”

“The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.”

“In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.”

“Ideas are the very coinage of your brain.”

“It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.”

“We are the prisoners of ideas.”

“Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.”

“Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.”

“If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.”

“The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.”

“The cheekIs apter than the tongue to tell an errand.”

“I will be free, even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.”

“Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.”

“A picture is worth a thousand words.”

“I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.”

“It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.”

“Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.”

“Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose.For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed.”