The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty.

While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

There is no safety-net to protect against attraction.

When fate has allowed to any man more than one great gift, accident or necessity seems usually to contrive that one shall encumber and impede the other.

Sorrow, on wing through the world for ever, Here and there for awhile would borrow Rest, if rest might haply deliver Sorrow.

Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light: Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound or sight: Nor wintry leaves nor vernal; Nor days nor things diurnal; Only the sleep eternal In an eternal night.