Amy Lowell

Youth condemns; maturity condones.

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.