Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in. "

Related Quotes:

" Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. "

" The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me. "

" In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. "

" Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think. "

" Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. "

" Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. "

" If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. "

" Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed. "

" The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic. "

" And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man. "

" Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write. "

" Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. "

" I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word. "

" Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young. "

" Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man. "

" That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again. "