I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.

The wild-flower wreath of feeling, the sunbeam of the heart.

There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest.

This bank-note world.

Strike-for your altars and your fires; Strike-for the green graves of your sires; God-and your native land!

I sorrow that all fair things must decay.

They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his majesty. - Fitz

What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm.

And thou art terrible--the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine.

Ere the dolphin dies Its hues are brightest. Like an infant's breath Are tropic winds before the voice of death.

None knew thee but to love thee.

We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.

Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.

All things are lessons that God would have us learn.

The universe is eight billion years old, the last two billion of which have produced intelligent life. During this time not one hour of absolute equity has prevailed.

Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

I don't need my name anywhere.

I know that success does not come at once, it is not a thing achieved overnight. It is the result of many, many, many years of working and trying to achieve goals.

If I had all the money I've spent on drink — I'd spend it on drink.

You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances.