"We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest."

"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death."

"What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests."

"A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon."

"It is a radiant truth that wisdom is the quiet art of recognizing what can be changed and releasing what cannot — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."

"Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness."

"Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one."