There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.

From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.

We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before.