True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?

Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.