There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.