To thine own self be true

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

–speech to Royal College of Surgeons, London, 1923

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

—Hamlet

“I never met the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

—Walden

“We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart.”

“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.”

“Only connect!”

–epigraph, A Passage to India

“You can never step in the same river twice.”

“Exuberance is beauty.”

“To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry