Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.
Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.