There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.

She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.

Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race.

Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make the happiness of the rudest handicraftsman as well as that of the ideal craftsman of the spirit? Because, probably, at his highest elevation, the poet needs no human intercourse; but he finds it dreary to descend, and be a stranger.

If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones,--others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs.

I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you.

What, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in?