The world is too brutal for me-I am glad there is such a thing as the grave-I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there.

Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

I can write three hundred and sixty-five grateful thanks. Cultivate the habit to write gratitude daily.

Simon did not solve problems, he just shamed them into going away.

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

My goodness, my hair's been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory.

Folks with most to complain about seldom complain most.

I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.

There's no type of music I don't like. I think it's important to be able to make fun of all types.

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

The biggest looters are the British Museum.

I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.