The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

In the end is my beginning.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.