Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.
The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.
Hungry Hatred, will not strive against intelligence self-interest.
And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.
Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.
Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.