One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine.

The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains--beautiful! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man, and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness I learned the language of another world.

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.

Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.

Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylæ!