I have not been afraid of excess: excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. : They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

:the future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes: