“This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.”
Fear“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.”
Knowledge“This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.”
Fear“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”
Death“Who loves, raves.”
Love“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.”
Life“Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.”
Wisdom“Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.”
Truth“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”
Architecture“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”
Nature“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”
Great“I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.”
Politics“Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.”
Society“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”
Friendship“This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.”
Age“If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.”
Business“The heart will break, but broken live on.”
Movingon“They never fail who die in a great cause.”
Great“Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.”
God“What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.”
Age“Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.”
Jealousy“We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.”
Trust