I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him.

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.

In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.