“Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.”

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still…nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.

We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.

Friends are nations in themselves.

I tasted life.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.

We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.

The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

It is only to stress the fact that the difference between a clandestine literature and no literature equals the difference between one and zero.

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.

You are like a wrecked ship in the depths of the ocean, collapsed and eroded but still, full of pearl oysters.