Most People Have Never Learned

The Youth Of An Art Is, Like The Youth Of Anything Else, Its Most Interesting Period. When It Has Come To The Knowledge Of Good And Evil It Is Stronger, But We Care Less About It.

[p]oetry Resembles Metaphysics: One Does Not Mind One's Own, But One Does Not Like Anyone Else's.

If People Would Dare To Speak To One Another Unreservedly, There Would Be A Good Deal Less Sorrow In The World A Hundred Years Hence.

The Advantage Of Doing One's Praising For Oneself Is That One Can Lay It On So Thick And Exactly In The Right Places.

They Say The Test Of Literary Power Is Whether A Man Can Write An Inscription. I Say, "can He Name A Kitten?"