I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.

If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.

A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to let the perfect action take her part and rest there: she must prove what she can do before she does it, -- prate of woman's rights, of woman's mission, woman's function, till the men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry, A woman's function plainly is... to talk. Poor souls, they are very reasonably vexed!

She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.