When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.