To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
Gracious to all, to none subservient, without offense he spoke the word he meant.
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.
No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.
We vivisect the nightingale To probe the secret of his note.
The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.
A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
Books that have become classics books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep
We weep when we are born, Not when we die
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