For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.

O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted.

If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

I went out to the hazelwood because a fire was in my head.

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.