I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.