Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness.

All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.

All the wild-witches, those most notable ladies For all their broom-sticks and their tears, Their angry tears, are gone.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.