“ Luck is not chance, it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned. ”

“ Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. ”

“ Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. ”

“ I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality. ”

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

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

“ 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. ”

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

“ I dwell in possibility. ”

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