The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.
There's rosemary and rue. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Grace and remembrance be to you.
The Eyes are the window to your soul
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
There are three people in yourself - who people think you are, who you think you are, and who you really are.
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
There are days when I can hear men tying their shoe laces in the gallery.
In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.
If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.
If at first you don't succeed, have a cup of tea.