“Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.”

“His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked.”

“Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.”

“He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath.”

“Paths are made by walking”

“Write till your ink be dry, and with your tearsMoist it again, and frame some feeling lineThat may discover such integrity.”

“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.”

“My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.”

“But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.”

“Write till your ink be dry, and with your tearsMoist it again, and frame some feeling lineThat may discover such integrity.”

“Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward, But then woos best when most his choice is froward.”

“We must every one be a man of his own fancy.”

“Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.”

“A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.”

“Grief best is pleased with grief's society.”

“The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.”

“In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.”