Wine is bottled poetry.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not...

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not...

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon...

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon...

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant...

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant...

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite...

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite...

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and...

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and...

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at...

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at...

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the...

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the...

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good...

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good...

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Youth is wholly experimental

Youth is wholly experimental

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can...

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can...

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the...

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the...

A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.

A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.

Looking back, you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life, and...

Looking back, you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life, and...