The fears of what may come to pass, I cast them all away, Among the clover scented grass, Among the new-mown hay.

With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes.

A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected.

[Death:] The one inexorable thing!

Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

High above hate I dwell, O storms! farewell.

Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.

Character demonstrates itself in trifles.

I am not in the least given to any violent interest in womankind, however, such as has addled the country's brains of late. Give me a manandwoman world: 'tis good enough!

The hand betrays the heart.

Be disciplined and prudent in the way you manage your time

One day you will meet someone who will show you what you are made of. I only hope it is someone not forbidden to you ...

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

Beauty always takes place in the particular.

It all looks American because America, the country that invented mass capitalism and consumerism, got there first. the impact of mass capitalism is now universal.

We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible.

You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.

Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm.

We are as gods and might as well get good at it.

Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile