Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there. |
Work is the curse of the drinking classes. |
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do |
Yes, God made man first, but there's always a rough draft before the final copy. |
Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. |
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! |
You are young. No hungry generations tread you down.... The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost... |
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. |
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. |
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know. |
You know what a woman's curiosity is |
You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done. |
Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot. |
Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow older, they know it |
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile. |