That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

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.

And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.

Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.

O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.