How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

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

We have hearts within, Warm, live, improvident, indecent hearts.

It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.