"How much I love every thing that is decided and open!"

"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."

"An artist cannot do anything slovenly."

"In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes."

"What dreadful weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance."

"Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch."

"We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing"

"Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?"

"Any excuse will serve a tyrant."

"Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes."

"Never find your delight in another's misfortune."

"In Kyudo philosophy, you don't aim--you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there's nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try."