Without kindness there can be no true joy.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!

Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.