The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.

To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any presumed Science is ascertained to be actually & verily science. The Ptolemaic Astronomy was barely able to prognosticate a lunar eclipse; with Kepler and Newton came Science and Prophecy.

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.