The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.

Rule by patience, Laughing Water!

They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.

The thoughts of Youth are long, long thoughts

There are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye.