A poet is a good citizen turned inside out.

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

A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.

What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?

Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be earned.