Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.
Superstition is the poetry of life.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
There is no higher or purer pleasure than to sit with closed eyes and hear a naturally expressive voice recite... a play of Shakespeare's.
Everything is hard before it is easy
Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.
I think of you when upon the sea the sun flings her beams. I think of you when the moonlight shines in silvery streams. I see you when upon the distant hills the dust awakes; At night when on a fragil...
I think of you when upon the sea the sun flings her beams.I think of you when the moonlight shines in silvery streams.I see you when upon the distant hills the dust awakes;At night when on a fragile b...
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
If you would create something,you must be something.
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words.