The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

The air is all softness.

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

We must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion, or with any other feeling than regret and hope and brotherly commiseration.

His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed.

What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.