The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is food and wine, is fire and horse and health and holiday. At least, I find that any success in my work has the effect on my spirits of all these.

When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I measure degrees of latitude, why should I count Egyptian years?

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.