“The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone.”

“Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.”

“A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.”

“That's the water calling. It's a long time since anyone was drowned.”

“Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder.”

“It was strange to experience in one night the difference between wanting something you cannot have and having something you cannot want. I wished it wasn't my time to learn it. No one else seemed to be learning much of anything.”

“Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.”