The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves...
Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.
A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.
Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate; others, because we are humane; many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our being unwise. It is these last only that of necessity produce more.
I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.
Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples.
With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.
The most tangible of all visible mysteries – fire.
Write me as one who loves his fellow men.
It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and things, as in that vision, seem Keeping along it their eternal stands.
Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.
Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.
Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
I loved my friend for his gentleness, his candor, his good repute, his freedom even from my own livelier manner, his calm and reasonable kindness. It was not any particular talent that attracted me to him, or i anything striking whatsoever. I should say in one word, it was his goodness.
This garden has a soul, I know its moods.
Night’s deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
The beautiful attracts the beautiful.
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.