“Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.”

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”

“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.”

“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”

“There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains.”

“When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.”

“England and America are two countries separated by the same language.”