The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

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.

Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.