I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
Love is my religion - I could die for it.
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
Talking is the disease of age.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.
Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.
Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.
I do honour the very flea of his dog.
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
He threatens many that hath injured one.
Fortune, that favors fools.
Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.
Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.
And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
