You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops