Riches I hold in light esteem, And love I laugh to scorn, And lust of fame was but a dream That vanished with the morn. And if I pray, the only prayer That moves my lips for me Is, 'Leave the heart that now I bear, And give me liberty!' Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.

I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!

If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I'd be your slave.