The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.

Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night.

History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.

Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!