"My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight."

"I'm not a nature lover. I don't love nature. I love some of it. I love some people, but I don't love humanity."

"A liberal is a man too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel."

"The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it."

"Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense."