Shun death, is my advice..

Are there not, dear Michael, Two points in the adventure of the diver,- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he rises with hi….

Ignorance is not innocence but sin..

Rats They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the c….

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once..

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God..

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least..

Faultless to a fault..

There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music.

Oh, good gigantic smile o' the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets his bones To bask i' the sun, and thrusts out knees and feet. From t….

Make us happy and you make us good..

It's like those eerie stories nurses tell, Of how some actor on a stage played Death, With pasteboard crown, sham orb and tinselled dart, And called ….

Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat..

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity.

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency..

There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is….

Silence 'tis awe decrees..

Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up..

A lion may die of an ass's kick..

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with..

I dare not so honor my mere wishes and prayers as to put them for a moment beside your noble acts; but this know, I would rather submit to the worst ….