Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
A stately pleasure-dome decree.
Come, come thou bleak December wind, And blow the dry leaves from the tree! Flash, like a Love-thought, thro’me, Death And take a Life that wearies me.
A sight to dream of, not to tell!
Why aren’t more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren’t within everybody’s reach.
Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suffusion from that light.
An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.
Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man.
Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.
Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.
The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.
For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten.
A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.
O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.
The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.
False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.
Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.
I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.