I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs.... Perhaps I am an exception.

It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.

Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.

Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.

You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.

I'm happiest when most away I can bear my soul from its home of clay On a windy night when the moon is bright And the eye can wander through worlds of light— When I am not and none beside— Nor earth nor sea nor cloudless sky— But only spirit wandering wide Through infinite immensity.

Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.