Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
The man of wisdom is the man of years.
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himselfThat hideous sight,-a naked human heart.