The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize his own aspirations, either in religion or politics, or society, he gave up his heart to the living sp...
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny there will be found reviewers to calumniate.
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my babe! Shalt wander like a breezeBy lakes and sandy shores, beneath the cragsOf anci...
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole its body brevity and wit its soul.
Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.