I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.

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.

What do we know but that we face one another in this place?

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.

Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.

Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade.

A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.