The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They have a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.

Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever!

It is when we think we lead that we are most led.