There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.
An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?
The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.
It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.
Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age--the only perfectly beautiful things on earth--joyous, innocent, half divine--useless, say they who are wiser than God.