It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

If you're not failing every now and again it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

I always know my lines.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

My chief concern is to try to be an humble earnest Christian.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity but in being uninteresting.

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