Beauty in all things-no, we cannot hope for that; but some place set apart for it.

Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.

Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

He that would eat of love must eat it where it hangs.

Lord I do fear / Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year.

I find that I never lose Bach. I don't know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so pure, so relentless and incorruptible, like a principle of geometry.