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

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are, the more necessary it is to be plain.

Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed.

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

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