Play is not for every hour of the day, or for any hour taken at random. There is a tide in the affairs of children. Civilization is cruel in sending them to bed at the most stimulating time of dusk.

... I am dark but fair, / Black but fair.

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

But, visiting Sea, your love doth press / And reach in further than you know, / And fills all these; and, when you go, / There's loneliness in loneliness.

In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate and ashamed. See the curious history of the political rights of woman under the Revolution. On the scaffold she enjoyed an ungrudged share in the fortunes of party. Political life might be denied her, but that seems a trifle when you consider how generously she was permitted political death.

I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?