All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct.

Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know- Although they do not talk of it at school - That we must labor to be beautiful.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.