There's a line in The Barretts of Wimpole Street - you know, the play - where Elizabeth Barrett is trying to work out the meaning of one of Robert Browning's poems, and she shows it to him, and he reads it and he tells her when he wrote that poem, only God and Robert Browning knew what it meant, and now only God knows. And that's how I feel about studying English. Who knows what the writer was thinking, and why should it matter? I'd rather just read for enjoyment.

Men who watch, and say little, very often are much wiser than the men they serve.

A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.

Ye'll never best your fears until ye face them

So, you see, my heart is held forever by this place," she said. "I cannot leave.

The world becomes a wider place, with but a little learning.

..the fields might fall to fallow and the birds might stop their song awhile; the growing things might die and lie in silence under snow, while through it all the cold sea wore its face of storms and death and sunken hopes...and yet unseen beneath the waves a warmer current ran that, in its time, would bring the spring.