Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
Only that which does not teach which does not cry out which does not condescend which does not explain is irresistible.
To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
Florence Farr once said to me "If we could say to ourselves with sincerity 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know ' we could die upon the instant and be united with God."
All empty souls tend to extreme opinion.
The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life or of the work.
No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or desi...
Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.