Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were drowned in the deepest sea, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose tears would come down to me, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!

Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild.

All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.