"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it."

"My friends are my estate."

"After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs."

"That it will never come again is what makes life sweet."

"For love is immortality."

"He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust."

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

"Dying is a wild night and a new road."

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

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

"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."

"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."

"The brain is wider than the sky."

"Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent."

"Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes."

"Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate."

"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."

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

"People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles."

"They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse."

"Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath."

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

"I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven."

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

"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."

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

"I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name."

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

"They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity."

"A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day."

"Finite to fail, but infinite to venture."

"Fortune befriends the bold."

"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few."

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

"Tell the truth, but tell it slant."

"Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell."

"Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed."

"Beauty is not caused. It is."

"I dwell in possibility."

"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."

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

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

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."

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

"Where thou art, that is home."

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

"Saying nothing... sometimes says the most."