Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!

A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.

With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.

The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.

I would build a cloudy House For my thoughts to live in; When for earth too fancy-loose And too low for Heaven! Hush! I talk my dream aloud - I build it bright to see, - I build it on the moonlit cloud, To which I looked with thee.

A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone has looked at him with eyes that, large or small, have won his soul.