If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.

When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.

I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.

You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.

You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!

A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.