All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life; my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.