"A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light."

"Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!"

"In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, profess…"

"Susanna's music touched the bawdy strings Of those white elders; but, escaping, Left only Death's ironic scraping. No…"

"To be young is all there is in the world. The rest is nonsense — and cant. They talk so beautifully about work and ha…"

"How full of trifles everything is! It is only one’s thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture."

"Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Sprin…"

"The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pa…"

"Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave build haunted heave…"

"One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does…"