“I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.” 

“Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.” 

“Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.” 

“Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.” 

“One need not be a chamber to be haunted.” 

“We turn not older with years but newer every day.” 

“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.” 

“I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.” 

“A wounded dear leaps the highest” 

“I must go in, the fog is rising.” 

“How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,--you must have noticed them in the street,--how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?” 

“I have been bent and broken, but -I hope- into a better shape.” 

“The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.” 

“Dying is a wild night and a new road.” 

“They say that God is everywhere and yet we always think of him as somewhat of a recluse.” 

“I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?” 

“People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.” 

“your brain is wider than the sky” 

“I must go in, the fog is rising.” 

“How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,--you must have noticed them in the street,--how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?” 

“I have been bent and broken, but -I hope- into a better shape.” 

“The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.” 

“Dying is a wild night and a new road.” 

“They say that God is everywhere and yet we always think of him as somewhat of a recluse.” 

“I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?” 

“People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.” 

“Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.” 

“Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.” 

“The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.” 

“How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!” 

“A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.” 

“The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.” 

“There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away...” 

“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.” 

“Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.” 

“I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound. A rich man might not notice it; yet to my frugal eye of more esteem than ducats. Oh! Find it, sir, for me!” 

“Forever is composed of nows..” 

“I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious” 

“The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.” 

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

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.“You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.” 

“Art is a house that tries to be haunted.” 

“Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. ” 

“I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given.” 

“That it will never come again is what makes life sweet. Dwell in possibility. Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” 

“Tell all the truth but tell it slant.” 

“The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.” 

“Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome. ” 

“Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye....” 

“You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.”