Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease.

My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And to give thanks is good, and to forgive.

Change lays her hand not upon the truth.

But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.

Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.