If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.

The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled.

A quote about drinking is a joy forever

I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.

I should write for the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful, even if my night's labors should be burnt every morning and no eye shine upon them.